The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 332

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Chapter 332. This Cannot Be!

 

 

Kuuuuuuuuuu!

Fire energy rushed into Ha Mu-baek’s body like a raging torrent.

Ha Mu-baek guided it all into his empty dantian.

The tremendous fire energy seemed ready to burn his blood meridians at any moment.

But the fragments of ice energy that Ha Mu-baek had absorbed and still remained were protecting his blood meridians.

Thanks to this, his blood meridians held firm against the tremendous heat of the blue flame.

The blue flame was absorbed into Ha Mu-baek’s body with tremendous fire energy that seemed ready to burn and melt everything in the world.

The fire energy raged, trying to burn even the dantian that was absorbing and accumulating it layer by layer.

But Ha Mu-baek used the Mugeuk Yeoui Heart Method with all his might to calm and absorb it.

If he hadn’t absorbed the ice energy first.

This was heat that would have made his dantian feel tremendous burning pain.

According to the mysteries of the Mugeuk Yeoui Heart Method, the more it circulated through Ha Mu-baek’s blood meridians, the more it gradually calmed.

It slowly transformed into internal energy and accumulated layer by layer in his dantian.

Then he sent the heat energy that entered his dantian and was raging back to his blood meridians for one circulation before bringing it back to his dantian, then circulated the slightly tamed energy once more.

Through this process, Ha Mu-baek continued to absorb and absorb the heat energy that filled the Tak Family’s land.

The tremendous heat and flames that seemed ready to turn into burning earth at any moment began to gradually subside.

Bing Chwi-seol and Han Seol-bing also felt this change.

“What’s happening?”

They moved a little closer.

When the energy that burst from the Palace Lord’s divine artifact transformed into a blizzard storm to fight the flames, they had hope.

But in the end, only flames remained.

It was fortunate that the heat had decreased to about half compared to before.

And the warrior who disappeared into those flames, Ha Mu-baek.

They couldn’t tell what had happened to him.

Even though it had decreased to half the level, it was still tremendous flames that the two of them couldn’t dare approach.

They could only wait for it to consume all its energy and subside on its own.

But the flames were gradually subsiding.

The speed was too fast for it to be consuming its own energy and dying down.

“C-could it be?”

At this realization, a shocked expression appeared on Han Seol-bing’s face.

“What’s wrong?”

At Bing Chwi-seol’s question.

“M-maybe… D-Dan-ju might be absorbing that energy…”

Han Seol-bing spoke haltingly in a trembling voice, as if she couldn’t be certain.

Bing Chwi-seol’s eyes shook violently.

And she reflected on the things Ha Mu-baek had done after revealing himself at Ice Heaven Palace.

Reviewing those scenes once more.

“It might actually be possible.”

Bing Chwi-seol found herself believing it.

An existence that couldn’t be judged by human common sense.

She had felt to her bones that this was what Ha Mu-baek was.

 

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Ha Mu-baek closed his eyes and used the Mugeuk Yeoui Heart Method with all his might to absorb the fire energy.

Previously, he had regretted not doing energy circulation and breathing to fill his internal energy before coming here.

But not now.

Rather, because he had completely emptied his dantian, he was absorbing more energy faster.

It was also easier to circulate the absorbed energy and transform it into his own.

He continued to absorb and absorb and absorb.

At some point, Ha Mu-baek frowned slightly.

‘Too much.’

Even though half the energy had disappeared in the fight with the ice energy, there was still a lot.

‘Take what I can take, discard what I must discard.’

Ha Mu-baek made his decision.

Greed brings disaster.

It was reasonable to only do what was within his capabilities.

Ha Mu-baek decided to absorb only the fire energy he could handle, and for what he couldn’t manage, he would kill the fire energy and send it back outside.

He didn’t have the foolish thought of absorbing everything just because Tak Yo-beom had handled all that energy.

Tak Yo-beom hadn’t consumed the energy.

This damned energy had consumed Tak Yo-beom.

Even his personality seemed to have changed.

It could be attributed to suddenly gaining powerful strength.

But Ha Mu-baek didn’t think so.

A family head who had commanded numerous retainers.

To treat his own retainers like trash without a care.

If he had been such a family head, he wouldn’t have received such absolute loyalty, like in the battle at the Palace Lord’s Hall.

Ha Mu-baek, who had been the leader of the group called Hocheon Corps, could tell.

Tak Yo-beom’s temperament after consuming the fire energy was not his original temperament.

This energy of unknown origin.

This must be the cause.

So Ha Mu-baek continuously absorbed and expelled energy.

The heat continued to subside, and the flames disappeared.

Slowly, the scene where Ha Mu-baek sat cross-legged began to become visible.

 

“D-Dan-ju!!”

Now Han Seol-bing could enter to some degree.

Han Seol-bing approached as close as possible and looked at Ha Mu-baek with a surprised face.

The flames touched Ha Mu-baek’s body and died down.

Ha Mu-baek’s body heated up bright red, then heated up yellow, passed through white to turn blue.

Then it recovered its original color.

He endlessly repeated this process.

Tears welled up in Han Seol-bing’s eyes.

She knows.

How insane this is.

Setting aside the size of the dantian needed to handle that tremendous amount of energy.

The pain when that insane heat runs through his blood meridians would be unimaginably intense.

Since she hadn’t seen Ha Mu-baek absorb the ice energy, she could only think this way.

“He’s so amazing that calling him amazing feels inadequate.”

Bing Chwi-seol, who had approached nearby, also looked at Ha Mu-baek with a surprised face.

“S-something that could help Dan-ju…”

Han Seol-bing desperately racked her brain.

Because she wanted to help him even a little.

Because she wanted to reduce his pain even by the smallest amount.

Though Ha Mu-baek’s face was utterly peaceful, his insides would not be the same.

Han Seol-bing racked her brain to a degree she wondered if she had ever thought this hard in her entire life, when she suddenly recalled one fact.

The ice crystal energy she had felt while operating the Ice Heaven Ten Thousand Forms Ten Thousand Shatter Formation.

That one strand had been extending toward the Tak Family.

Hadn’t she harbored doubts about that?

Now that was fortunate instead.

“I, I need to use the ice crystal energy!”

Shouting this, Han Seol-bing deployed her lightness skill to the maximum and headed toward the Palace Lord’s Hall.

Bing Chwi-seol nodded to her, then continued watching over Ha Mu-baek from this place.

In preparation for any emergency.

 

Underground beneath the Palace Lord’s Hall.

Arriving at the place where the Ten Thousand Year Ice Crystal was located, Han Seol-bing sat cross-legged again in the spot where she had deployed the formation.

This was the position connected to the ice crystal energy.

Though Bing Chwi-seol had played the role of allowing maximum utilization of the ice crystal energy.

For using the ice crystal energy that now extended to the Tak Family’s land, Han Seol-bing alone was sufficient.

Han Seol-bing thrust the Ice Heaven Cold Snow Sword straight into the ground.

Its position was different from before.

She closed both eyes.

Wooooong.

A vibration as if the Ice Heaven Ten Thousand Forms Ten Thousand Shatter Formation was activating again.

However, only the Ten Thousand Year Ice Crystal vibrated slightly.

Han Seol-bing could send her consciousness to the ice crystal energy through the formation’s core formation.

Through the Ice Heaven Cold Snow Sword.

And she was feeling that flow.

The ice crystal extended its energy throughout the entire Palace Lord’s Hall as if to protect it.

But exactly one strand of energy extended far away, reaching the Tak Family.

There, Han Seol-bing perceived tremendous fire energy deep underground.

‘Because of this?’

The ice crystal’s strand was suppressing that fire energy.

If not for the ice crystal energy, earthquakes might have occurred here long ago, or volcanoes might have erupted – it was tremendous fire energy.

Probably the origin of the fire energy Tak Yo-beom had obtained was this. Though she couldn’t know the method.

Han Seol-bing diverted a very small portion of the ice crystal energy above ground.

She couldn’t send much energy.

If she did, she wouldn’t be able to suppress the underground fire energy.

 

The small energy cooled the Tak Family’s land with cold.

As the heat subsided faster than Ha Mu-baek could absorb the energy.

Bing Chwi-seol nodded.

She realized that Han Seol-bing had done something using the ice crystal.

Ha Mu-baek was still in deep energy circulation meditation.

‘What’s this?’

The ground where he sat cross-legged had become cool.

Ice energy was rising from underground.

The ice energy within Ha Mu-baek’s body reacted.

Thus Ha Mu-baek began simultaneously absorbing the ice energy rising from underground and the fire energy burning the earth.

The two energies began fighting fiercely within Ha Mu-baek’s dantian.

-Graaah! This cannot be! This cannot happen! How many years have I spent for ascension!!!

Then.

A grudging thought felt from the fire energy.

‘The energy has a will?’

It definitely wasn’t an abyss.

But it had a will.

‘What are you?’

Ha Mu-baek’s will asked toward the energy’s will.

-Are you this body’s master? Human? Impressive. To read my will.

‘What are you?’

Ha Mu-baek asked again.

-I am a fire imugi. Hwa-gyo-ryong.

Ha Mu-baek’s eyebrows twitched.

Because it was an existence he had never imagined.

And now it finally made sense.

The energy that seemed inhuman, like a monster.

It had been a dragon’s energy.

-What am I to do with the resentment of dying slowly over a thousand years, caught in the mystical arts of wicked humans just before ascension!!

The dragon’s fury was felt.

But that was all.

Though it raged as fire energy, Ha Mu-baek was now controlling the energy according to his will.

The dragon’s grudging thoughts continued spewing anger and pouring out all manner of words.

In that process, Ha Mu-baek could learn how Tak Yo-beom had come to obtain the energy.

The dragon had fallen into deep sleep for its final molting, then awakened to ascend and become a fire dragon.

But trapped by sealing mystical arts and formations deployed by humans.

It had died as its energy was slowly drained.

The resentment toward the one who deployed the seal became grudging thoughts.

This was why Tak Yo-beom’s nature had changed.

The dragon’s grudging thoughts of resentment contained in the fire energy.

That had invaded Tak Yo-beom’s mind.

The state of being consumed by energy was because of this.

However, it was useless against Ha Mu-baek.

-Th-this cannot be!!!

Leaving behind a final death cry, the dragon’s grudging thoughts disappeared.

Ha Mu-baek had absorbed all the fire energy.

The fire energy he couldn’t absorb had already been released in all directions.

Dense energy settled around Ice Heaven Palace.

Bing Chwi-seol also felt that energy.

Now the Tak Family’s land was completely free of heat.

Ha Mu-baek’s face was utterly peaceful.

Only then did she nod.

“The Tak Family’s rebellion is over and fortune has come to Ice Heaven Palace! All palace disciples immediately practice energy circulation so as not to miss this fortune!”

She unleashed a shout filled with internal energy toward the Palace Lord’s Hall, then she too sat cross-legged and fell into energy circulation.

 

-Ah. So this was it. Tak Ji-myeong…

After the dragon’s grudging thoughts disappeared.

After purifying all the fire energy.

The ice energy that had been protecting Ha Mu-baek’s blood meridians and dantian gathered into his dantian.

The energy’s intention was transmitted to Ha Mu-baek’s mind.

It wasn’t just a voice.

In his mental image, Ha Mu-baek met the owner of this energy.

In his mind’s eye, Hamubaek encountered the master of this energy.

She was a beautiful and truly beautiful elderly woman.

‘Who are you?’

-Thank you. My benefactor. Thanks to you, Ice Heaven Palace was able to survive. I am Bing Ok-ryeong. The first Palace Lord of Ice Heaven Palace.

‘I only did what I had to do.’

Bing Ok-ryeong smiled and shook her head.

-Not just anyone could have done it. Who would have thought Tak Ji-myeong’s arrangement was a Flood Dragon. One that had endured a thousand years of time at that… I read the heavenly divination and made my own arrangements, but it wasn’t enough. I barely filled that gap by borrowing your body, benefactor.

Her words were true.

The ice energy that poured out from Bingcheon Cold White Lotus had only eliminated half of the heat that covered all directions.

-Who would have thought the disaster of fire weapons was actually the Flood Dragon’s rage…

It was a murmur filled with regret.

‘Thanks to that energy, I survived. If you hadn’t killed half of that fire energy, even I couldn’t have done this. Rather, I received the saving of my life, so I should be giving thanks.’

Bing Ok-ryeong shook her head again.

-You could have just left, benefactor.

‘It’s my person’s matter, so I couldn’t do that.’

At the words “my person,” Bing Ok-ryeong’s expression changed subtly.

-She’s a cherished subordinate who has helped me greatly time and again.

What did he read in that expression?

Ha Mu-baek deliberately added those words.

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