The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 348

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Chapter 348. Will You Come Along?

 

 

“Well, that’s because he received supplies when he went on operations. But still, you guys are lucky. Thanks to that kid Cho Mu-ha.”

“Huh?”

Yeon Ha-min asked with a face that showed she didn’t understand.

“That guy. He just found out that Maengryong Corps can’t get Poison Immunity Pills.”

“How?”

Dang Jin-san tilted his head.

“I just told him a moment ago.”

Han Seol-bing grinned.

“But what does that have to do with being lucky…”

“That guy, since he said it, he has to keep his word. He said there were Poison Immunity Pills. He’ll make sure Maengryong Corps gets one pill each. That’s the kind of person he is. He takes responsibility for what he says.”

“Then…”

Dang Jin-san felt something ominous and couldn’t finish his words.

“Right. He’ll probably go to the Tang Family Territory soon. They asked him to come visit once anyway because of what happened last time. Sigh. Then I’ll have to oversee your training again.”

At the mention that Ha Mu-baek would go to the Tang Family Territory, the cadets’ faces hardened seriously.

But when Han Seol-bing said she would replace Ha Mu-baek, their expressions returned to normal.

They had worried that Jigunwi Instructor might replace Ha Mu-baek again.

Ha Mu-baek was certainly a difficult instructor, but Ji Gun-wi was much worse.

So much so that they would miss Ha Mu-baek.

At her comrades’ reaction, Ha Seol-ran smiled bitterly without anyone noticing.

It was because of how much the cadets feared Master.

“Then when will you be leaving, Instructor?”

Dang Jin-san asked cautiously.

Han Seol-bing shrugged and answered.

“As soon as possible? Maybe even right away.”

“What are you doing? Seol-bing.”

Then Ha Mu-baek appeared at the training ground again.

From the light leather bag he carried, it seemed he had prepared to leave in an instant.

“The kids had some questions, so I was answering them.”

Han Seol-bing looked at Ha Mu-baek with eyes that said ‘of course’ and answered.

Ha Mu-baek looked at Dang Jin-san with an expression that roughly understood what conversation had taken place.

“Will you come along?”

“Huh?”

Dang Jin-san asked back in confusion at Ha Mu-baek’s question.

“Sichuan Tang Family. You haven’t been there once since leaving. I asked if you’re thinking of going together.”

Dang Jin-san briefly thought of his main estate.

That witch… no, elder sister he had seen last time.

Well, he didn’t have much resistance to meeting her now.

Fortunately.

However.

The moment he thought of Father.

He hesitated.

It was because he thought he wasn’t yet at a level to stand confidently before Father.

And decisively, in addition to that.

Ha Mu-baek’s reason and purpose for visiting the Tang Family Territory.

Poison Immunity Pills.

He must be going to supply them to Maengryong Corps.

Roughly a hundred people would need to leave for Sanwol Demon Forest next year.

Then he would demand at least a hundred Poison Immunity Pills.

‘That’s crazy. That is. What kind of item is that…’

He immediately pictured the upheaval that would occur at the Tang Family Territory.

If he returned with Ha Mu-baek, he would get caught up in it.

Though the instructor seemed like he could solve anything in the world.

Still, he wanted to avoid problems involving his own family and father.

It would be better not to go.

Dang Jin-san came to that conclusion.

“No. I will focus on training here.”

“Is that so? I understand.”

Ha Mu-baek didn’t ask twice.

What a fortunate thing indeed.

And he looked at Han Seol-bing.

“Yes. I’ll teach the kids well.”

She answered first.

But Ha Mu-baek shook his head.

“I found someone else to replace me. Jigunwi Instructor, someone who helped while I was in North Sea. He agreed to help this time too. You just need to assist Instructor Ji to some degree.”

“Huh?”

Han Seol-bing asked in slight surprise.

Why not her?

Last time was her own business, but still.

She was about to feel a bit disappointed.

“You’re too soft. These guys need to be driven even more harshly right now.”

“Ah…”

It was something she had always heard from Ha Mu-baek since the Hocheon Corps days.

That she was too soft.

“Help him well. Thanks to that instructor, I was able to go to North Sea.”

At Ha Mu-baek’s following words, Han Seol-bing’s expression changed again.

“Ah…”

The one who enabled Ha Mu-baek to go to North Sea.

Then he was also a benefactor to Han Seol-bing and Ice Heaven Palace.

“I understand.”

Han Seol-bing nodded and answered.

At their conversation.

The cadets’ faces hardened stiffly.

Especially Dang Jin-san’s expression.

“Um, In-Instructor.”

Dang Jin-san cautiously called Ha Mu-baek.

Ha Mu-baek looked at Dang Jin-san.

“Actually, visiting home after a long time might be…”

“Didn’t you say you’d train? Then I’m going.”

With that, Ha Mu-baek simply left.

Dang Jin-san looked at where Ha Mu-baek had disappeared with a devastated face.

Thinking that getting caught up in upheaval would be better than being trained by Ji Gun-wi.

 

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“Hmm.”

The former head of the Sichuan Tang Family.

Poison Emperor Dang Ja-cheong was mixing poisons with a serious expression.

It was poison that his granddaughter had collected from Namman.

He already knew the results analyzed by countless members of the noble family estate.

However, Dang Ja-cheong could not easily accept it.

He had no choice.

His epithet carried the character for Emperor .

Poison Emperor.

It was an epithet given by the people of Gangho, meaning he was the best in all under heaven regarding poisons.

And yet, to give up like this?

He absolutely could not do that.

That’s why he analyzed it again with his own methods and examined it once more.

“How vicious.”

And he was able to reach a conclusion.

“To think a poison that cannot exist actually exists…”

“What do you mean by that, Father?”

Dang Mu-ryeong, the head of the Tang Family, asked after hearing Dang Ja-cheong’s muttering.

Dang Ja-cheong frowned.

“I told you not to enter my research laboratory carelessly…”

It was a scolding filled with concern.

“I called out several times from outside. Even infusing it with internal energy.”

Dang Mu-ryeong answered with a bright smile.

“Ah, did you do that?”

Dang Ja-cheong made an embarrassed face.

“Your concentration remains unchanged from then to now. Someone like me truly cannot even reach your toes.”

At the self-deprecating words, Dang Ja-cheong shook his head.

“You have your own talents. I simply like being cooped up in a small room touching those things.”

Even at Dang Ja-cheong’s words, Dang Mu-ryeong still looked at his father with a regretful expression.

He was still someone who could fully perform the duties of family head.

Nevertheless, saying he preferred examining poisons, he had passed the position of family head to him and shut himself away like this.

His feelings couldn’t help but be complicated.

“But what do you mean by that? That it cannot exist yet exists.”

Dang Mu-ryeong changed the subject.

His father’s muttering that he had heard as soon as entering this place.

“Mm. That is… hmm. Do you perhaps believe in the existence of poison essence?”

Poison essence.

The purification of poison where countless poison energies intertwined and became concentrated and concentrated again.

He was supposedly the head of the Tang Family that competed for first place in all under heaven regarding poisons.

He knew well about poison essence too.

And regarding its existence.

“I believe in it.”

When researching poisons, there are sometimes such cases.

Cases where several different poison energies create synergistic effects to become vicious poisons.

If that happens even in human research laboratories.

In the boundless great nature, there would be even more severe poisons.

They simply haven’t discovered them yet.

At his son’s answer, Dang Ja-cheong nodded.

“Right. The conclusion I reached with my knowledge and experience is that only poison essence can produce this level of poison energy. And that would be ten-thousand-year poison essence.”

Ten-thousand-year poison essence, the purification of poison where poison energy had condensed for ten thousand years.

“However, even if one discovers its existence, it cannot be taken or moved elsewhere. Any being that approaches would melt away and disappear from the poison energy.”

“Even at Father’s level of mastery?”

“Ten Thousand Poisons Immunity? Such a thing would be meaningless. Before ten-thousand-year poison essence.”

“Then what level would be required?”

“Well. I’ve never thought about it, but… perhaps All Poisons Immunity would be needed? Not being invaded by all poisons that exist in the world…”

Even as he spoke, Dang Ja-cheong made an expression as if it was nonsensical.

“Or… one would have to become poison itself. Something that wouldn’t melt even in ten-thousand-year poison essence.”

“…”

Dang Mu-ryeong could not say anything.

Though he had asked.

Wasn’t this just a level that would only appear in imagination?

Not even knowing how many poisons exist in the world.

All Poisons Immunity that blocks the invasion of all poisons?

He had never even heard of it.

People also could not imagine such a level existed.

It seemed like a level that Dang Ja-cheong had hastily made up.

“Hahahaha…”

Dang Mu-ryeong let out a hollow laugh.

“That’s why I said it’s a poison that exists yet cannot exist. Ten-thousand-year poison essence exists somewhere in the world. But that’s not something humans can move. Yet poison energy that should only be visible with ten-thousand-year poison essence has been discovered…”

Dang Mu-ryeong’s face hardened.

It was more serious than he had thought.

He had thought it was serious simply because a poison had appeared that even Ten Thousand Poisons Immunity couldn’t block.

“I suppose I’ll have to go to Namman myself.”

“You must not!”

Dang Mu-ryeong cried out in alarm.

It was far too dangerous.

A poison that even Ten Thousand Poisons Immunity couldn’t block, and now ten-thousand-year poison essence…

“Father. Grandfather. Are you there?”

Just then, Dang Ji-yeon’s voice was heard from outside.

The two people looked at each other and then went outside the research laboratory.

There, Dang Ji-yeon was waiting for the two of them.

“What’s the matter?”

Dang Mu-ryeong asked.

There was no reason for her to look for both him and his father at the same time.

If there was, it would only be about the poison collected from Namman this time.

That’s why the faces of Dang Mu-ryeong and Dang Ja-cheong were slightly stiff.

“A guest has come to the noble family estate.”

Dang Ji-yeon answered demurely.

At those words, both people tilted their heads simultaneously.

If it was a guest important enough to look for both of them at once.

It would be Jeongcheon Alliance Leader So Hwi-ung, or perhaps a sect leader from the Nine Sects and One Alliance or the Five Great Noble Families, or a master of the previous generation.

None of them were scheduled to visit the Tang Family.

“Well, Instructor Ha from Gyoryong Hall has come to visit.”

At Dang Ji-yeon’s words, a look of surprise appeared on Dang Ja-cheong’s face.

Though he had told him to come visit once.

He hadn’t expected him to visit so suddenly and unexpectedly like this.

Since he had invited him previously.

It was natural for him to look for Dang Ja-cheong.

But why Dang Mu-ryeong?

Of course, considering Ha Mu-baek’s status as the former Hocheon Corps Leader and his monster-like martial arts.

He was certainly qualified to meet the Tang Family Head.

But there was no particular reason for the Tang Family Head to step forward first.

After all, he was Dang Ja-cheong’s guest.

With that meaning in mind, Dang Mu-ryeong looked at Dang Ji-yeon.

Thinking there must be a reason she had sought him out.

“Well, Instructor Ha made a request, but the content is somewhat…”

Dang Ji-yeon hesitated to speak.

She had a good impression of Ha Mu-baek.

At least he had made her younger brother Dang Jin-san into a proper person.

But the request he had suddenly made without any prior notice.

Was something anyone from the Tang Family would call insane.

Moreover, it was a matter that required the Family Head’s approval.

She had sought out Father.

But she couldn’t rashly convey those words.

Father would surely call it madness too.

“What kind of request is it that you can’t speak properly?”

Dang Ja-cheong urged impatiently.

“He asked for support of one hundred Poison Resistance Pills by next New Year’s Day…”

At Dang Ji-yeon’s words that finally came out.

Dang Mu-ryeong immediately frowned.

He was about to burst into angry shouts.

But he held back, reading Dang Ja-cheong’s expression.

After all, Ha Mu-baek was Dang Ja-cheong’s guest.

Poison Resistance Pills.

Over sixty Poison Resistance Pills had been consumed in this Namman expedition.

Not knowing when such events might occur again, the Tang Family tried to stockpile as many of these pills as possible.

The manufacturing process wasn’t easy either.

Working for a full year would produce one hundred fifty to two hundred pills.

Ha Mu-baek was asking for at least half of the Tang Family’s annual production.

So his face couldn’t help but frown.

Of course, if the Tang Family concentrated all their efforts, they could make more than that, but that would only be in a real emergency.

Like the recent Murim Great War.

“Hmm. I thought the Hocheon Corps consumed many Poison Resistance Pills in the last war… So the man who was their leader took Poison Resistance Pills lightly…”

Dang Mu-ryeong spoke while suppressing his anger with effort.

Even Dang Ja-cheong couldn’t say anything about this part.

This was ultimately the Family Head’s matter, and the current Family Head was Dang Mu-ryeong.

“I’ll meet him directly myself. Lead the way.”

At Dang Mu-ryeong’s words, Dang Ji-yeon began walking.

Dang Ja-cheong slowly followed behind Dang Mu-ryeong.

In any case, he was his guest.

He had to go along and see what would happen.

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