The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 335

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Chapter 335. I’m Going

 

 

Guest Hall.

Ha Mu-baek entered his spacious and elegantly decorated room.

He leaned back comfortably on the bed and opened the secret manual he had received from Bing Chwi-seol.

Indeed, as she had said, it began by describing why Ice Heaven Palace was located in the North Sea.

‘A calamity that will befall All Under Heaven…’

What could that possibly be?

He couldn’t even begin to guess.

And the ice crystal was the power to stop that calamity.

The question ‘How?’ arose, but Ha Mu-baek didn’t get caught up in it and turned the page.

Ice Crystal Radiance Great Heaven Power.

He was curious about the reason why this should be passed on to the destined one.

And he was also curious about why Bing Chwi-seol felt he was the destined one.

With the thought that he might learn something if he read the entire secret manual, he continued reading.

One character. One character.

They passed through Ha Mu-baek’s eyes and accumulated neatly in his mind.

How long had he been concentrating and reading intently like this?

That problematic phrase.

He reached ‘Pass this on when the destined one appears.’

The secret manual truly ended with that phrase.

Ha Mu-baek straightened his posture on the bed and sat cross-legged.

Having read it all, he could understand.

Why Bing Chwi-seol thought he was the destined one.

That her intuition was quite accurate.

‘Emperor Sword Form.’

He recalled one sword technique.

‘Muscle-Tendon Changing and Marrow Cleansing Scripture.’

What Hyeon-gil had learned.

And what Ha Mu-baek had observed and imitated.

‘Prajnaparamita Great Sutra.’

The qi energy contained within it.

Hyeon-gil had said the Muscle-Tendon Changing and Marrow Cleansing Scripture was a fragment of Radiance.

The name of the secret manual Bing Chwi-seol had given him was Ice Crystal Radiance Great Heaven Power.

The word ‘Radiance’ was included in the martial arts name.

No, even without such a name, he could tell as he read and visualized it in his mind.

That this too possessed the same qi energy as those others.

After obtaining these three martial arts and one qi energy, examining them carefully.

He could understand.

That while it was the same qi energy, there were different parts.

As he separated those parts into fragments and pieced them together.

They fit together perfectly.

One martial art was completed.

All the fragments had been gathered.

Radiance .

Brilliantly shining light.

The natural enemy of all evil things in All Under Heaven.

That was precisely what this martial art was.

The fire qi and ice qi he had obtained this time.

Both could be operated with Radiance.

Fire qi that blazed and shone by itself.

Ice qi that froze pure white and shone by reflecting light in all directions.

Both of them.

Was it because they partially possessed the attribute of light?

The moment he operated his internal energy according to the principles of Radiance.

Fire qi and ice qi naturally intertwined as if they had been one from the beginning.

Though they were qi energies that had already melted into Ha Mu-baek’s internal energy.

By operating Radiance, they became internal energy he could use completely freely.

‘Divine providence…’

Ha Mu-baek recalled what Bing Chwi-seol had said.

That Bing Ok-ryeong had read divine providence and left this martial art, telling them to pass it on to the destined one.

Bing Ok-ryeong, who had written only that without a single word about who the destined one was.

Even though she made no mention at all of how her descendants should find the destined one, Bing Chwi-seol said it was intuition gained from learning mystical arts.

Following that intuition, she had given him the secret manual.

And Ha Mu-baek had gathered all the fragments of Radiance.

If it hadn’t been Ha Mu-baek.

Even if someone had obtained the secret manual, could they have completed Radiance?

It was unknowable.

Ha Mu-baek opened his eyes.

Another day had passed.

He had completed Radiance and achieved some degree of mastery in Ice Crystal Radiance Great Heaven Power as well.

If the ice crystal were beside him, he felt he could utilize that qi energy.

“I should return now.”

He had resolved Ice Heaven Palace’s rebellion.

Having spent unexpected time due to a sudden opportunity.

Now he had to return to Gyoryong Hall.

He couldn’t leave the cadets in Master’s care indefinitely.

Ha Mu-baek rose to his feet.

A warm meal was placed in front of the door.

Since there was no answer when he called, they must have left it like this.

Even not knowing when he would come out, they had brought warm food at regular intervals.

Ha Mu-baek brought the food to the dining table and picked up his utensils.

After eating a hearty meal.

He left the Guest Hall.

After changing into clean white martial robes that Ice Heaven Palace had prepared.

Ha Mu-baek began walking.

The martial artists of Ice Heaven Palace who spotted him performed cupped fist salutes and bowed deeply.

No one blocked Ha Mu-baek’s path.

Wherever he headed in Ice Heaven Palace.

The place Ha Mu-baek headed to was underground beneath the Palace Lord’s Hall.

Where the ice crystal was located.

At that entrance, Ha Mu-baek stopped for the first time.

The Gate Guards asked him to wait a moment and went inside to announce his arrival.

Soon the door opened.

Clean, cold qi energy rushed out.

The large Ten Thousand Year Ice Crystal was the first thing that caught his eye.

And nearby, Han Seol-bing and Bing Chwi-seol were sitting cross-legged, absorbed in their training.

Both were completely focused on their cultivation to organize the achievements they had gained this time.

“I’m leaving.”

Ha Mu-baek spoke briefly to Han Seol-bing.

At those simple words, both opened their eyes wide.

Their expressions clearly showed surprise.

“Ha Dae-hyeop. How can it be so soon already…”

Bing Chwi-seol approached with a face that said this made no sense.

“I’ve delayed longer than expected. I have things I must do. I should return now.”

Ha Mu-baek spoke with a serious expression.

He thought they wouldn’t try to hold him back if he spoke clearly.

Ha Mu-baek spoke to Han Seol-bing who had hurriedly approached.

“You should come until before the second semester starts – about a month left? Just until then. I’m leaving.”

After finishing those words, Ha Mu-baek gave a cupped fist salute to Bing Chwi-seol.

“Thank you for the warm hospitality. The secret manual you shared was also a great opportunity. I think I must take my leave now.”

Faced with Ha Mu-baek’s resolute appearance.

Bing Chwi-seol moved her lips several times but couldn’t say anything.

Instead.

She looked at Han Seol-bing.

“Seol-bing. You too…”

Bing Chwi-seol stopped speaking.

In her heart, she wanted to tell her to go together, but reality wasn’t so lenient.

Han Seol-bing had many things to do.

She had to repair the damaged parts of the formation arranged in the Palace Lord’s Hall.

And there was also a child she had to teach.

A child she had discovered by chance, who seemed born for formations.

Im Jang-mu.

Right now, Han Seol-bing was the only person in Ice Heaven Palace who could teach that child.

In the end, Bing Chwi-seol didn’t bring up any more words and lightly shook her head.

She gave a cupped fist salute toward Ha Mu-baek.

“Ha Dae-hyeop. We are truly grateful for our benefactor’s help. Ice Heaven Palace, as Dae-hyeop’s friend, will step forward for any matter concerning Dae-hyeop. Please just say the word anytime.”

The two people bowed deeply to each other.

And so Ha Mu-baek left Ice Heaven Palace just as suddenly as when he had arrived.

Taking some leisure in his journey back to Muchang.

 

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Bang!

With a loud noise, a cadet flew backward with his shield and rolled on the ground.

“Your leg and waist strength are weak.”

Brief advice.

It was a clear and bright voice, but the content was like frost.

The words that would come next were obvious.

“Go do horse stance for two hours. And increase your daily horse stance training time.”

With those words, Wi Ji-gun, no, Ji Gun-wi looked to the side.

That side was still holding up well against his attacks.

They had to.

Maengryong Corps second-year Seventh Group.

These were children Ha Mu-baek had taught directly.

Meanwhile, one group had left and the next group had entered.

Right now Wi Ji-gun was facing three groups simultaneously.

When one group collapsed, they would leave to train their deficient areas, and the next group would take their place.

Relentless training.

The training intensity was so harsh it made even the female cadets who had been smitten by his appearance sick of it.

Even so, Ji Gun-wi, that instructor, didn’t bat an eye.

Right now the cadets were moving almost on instinct.

They couldn’t rest even when sparring ended.

He was driving them relentlessly to the point where they truly missed Ha Mu-baek.

“Huff. Huff. Huff.”

Dang Jin-san was breathing heavily.

“How many have we endured?”

“Nine times.”

Yeon Ha-min answered briefly to Nak U-jin’s question.

At those words, tension spread across the five people’s faces.

If they could endure until ten groups had rotated.

They could rest.

Two hours of rest time.

That was the promise of that merciless instructor.

And so far, no group had endured ten times.

The Seventh Group had also repeatedly fallen to their knees at the tenth time.

Only then did the intensity and direction of attacks become completely different.

If the nine times were appetizer hors d’oeuvres, the tenth time was like the real main course.

He would drive them mercilessly.

And now, once the rotation finished, it would be that tenth time.

Once the next group’s rotation was complete.

“Then let’s start again.”

The moment those words ended.

The instructor’s body movement split into three.

Afterimages visible due to his tremendously fast movement.

The cadets gritted their teeth.

Ji Gun-wi faced the cadets while appropriately adjusting his strength to match their level.

The same was true when facing the Seventh Group.

However, he pushed hardest among all the times so far.

He too knew this was the tenth time.

“Ugh.”

A groan flowed from Dan Mok Un-rae’s mouth.

“Argh.”

Dang Jin-san let out a scream.

“…”

Yeon Ha-min gritted her teeth.

“Mm.”

Baek Ri-pyeong’s small grunt.

“Huff.”

Even Nak U-jin.

Truly lethal attacks unfolded one after another.

Even so, the cadets were blocking well.

Their concentration had expanded to the extreme.

‘Hmm. Not bad.’

Ji Gun-wi nodded slightly.

Baek Ri-pyeong, Dang Jin-san, Dan Mok Un-rae.

These guys had already learned to incorporate what they realized while mastering their ultimate techniques into the Bright Style Combined Combat.

That’s why even while performing the same forms, they showed movements with much more depth than others.

Even so.

That was the limit.

‘Soon enough.’

He needed to eliminate these friends too and make them train their lacking areas.

From Ji Gun-wi’s perspective, they were still full of shortcomings.

Wi Ji-gun.

The disciple he taught was Ha Mu-baek.

So his point of comparison was Ha Mu-baek.

In the end, all the cadets he was currently teaching simply looked insufficient.

Swoosh.

Ji Gun-wi’s wooden sword thrust toward a weak point in the Combined Combat.

If this point was breached, everything after would naturally crumble.

It wasn’t a flaw in the Combined Combat technique.

It was just a gap that appeared because the Maengryong Corps Seventh Group hadn’t perfectly refined their Combined Combat yet.

‘Which part should I have them improve this time.’

Just as he was contemplating what training to give the Seventh Group.

Clang!

A sound rang out.

Not thud, but clang.

The sound of a wooden sword bouncing off after hitting the practice sword used by the cadets.

It was Yeon Ha-min.

She had appeared at some point and struck away Ji Gun-wi’s wooden sword with her tightly gripped sword.

And she raised her shield straight up, erasing the opening.

‘Oh?’

Interest appeared on Ji Gun-wi’s face.

This was a movement even he hadn’t anticipated.

According to his expectations, Baek Ri-pyeong should have been lying flat right now, and Dan Mok Un-rae should have been falling from the next attack.

However.

Yeon Ha-min.

That child had broken the flow.

She had pushed her concentration to its limit.

With the thought that she couldn’t be defeated so helplessly again.

Yeon Ha-min entered with maximum concentration.

And a new world unfolded before her eyes.

Future Sight.

A dangerous and difficult ability.

So she had sealed it away until she became stronger, until the instructor said it was okay.

She had brought it out.

Because she hated the idea of continuing to be toyed with by that instructor and losing on the tenth attempt.

Exerting extreme concentration.

She used it for the first time since the Dongtu Festival.

‘I can’t see it properly.’

And she was shocked.

The scene one breath later that had been clearly visible back then.

Now it was blurry.

And it wasn’t just one, but two or three.

Yeon Ha-min extended her sword toward what seemed to be the clearest among them.

She barely managed to block it.

If her choice and action had been any later, she would have seen it but been unable to do anything.

Ji Gun-wi moved his sword again.

‘This time there are four…’

The future movements she could see numbered four.

Just how strong would one have to be.

To show such movements in a single breath.

Having heard about her ability from Ha Mu-baek.

Yeon Ha-min could guess why she was seeing four futures.

They weren’t confirmed yet.

The instructor was showing movements so fast that the future one breath later wasn’t confirmed.

‘If I become stronger. Will I be able to see what’s confirmed.’

As she thought this.

The movement that seemed clearest.

She moved her body toward it.

This time it wasn’t defense.

It was an attack.

Yeon Ha-min thrust her sword with all her might according to the Bright Style Sword Technique.

Ji Gun-wi twisted his sword path at Yeon Ha-min’s sudden counterattack, but.

Swish.

The tip of her sword lightly grazed Ji Gun-wi’s sleeve.

At that moment.

Ji Gun-wi stopped his sword.

His body movement that had split into three to simultaneously attack three places also merged into one.

He looked at Yeon Ha-min quietly.

‘What an interesting thing.’

He had thrust his sword to a completely unpredictable spot.

Yet she counterattacked as if she had known in advance.

She was an amusing child.

Another condition he had set when proposing the training match.

If they could even graze his sleeve, he would let them rest for this period.

The Seventh Group.

They had endured ten attempts and even grazed his sleeve.

Promises must be kept.

“Second-year Seventh Group. Half an hour rest. Next group, come in.”

At the words that came from his mouth.

Instantly, the cadets stopped all movement.

And they looked at the Seventh Group with eyes full of envy.

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