The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 350

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Chapter 350. Where Shall We Do This?

 

 

“Proof?”

Dang Ja-cheong asked his son.

“Yes. Proof. You must demonstrate to me the skill that makes Father trust him so much.”

A rough qi aura began to rise from Dang Mu-ryeong’s body.

“Do you mean what I think you mean?”

“If one is a martial artist, one speaks through martial arts. That is correct.”

Dang Mu-ryeong’s answer.

Dang Ja-cheong’s gaze turned to Ha Mu-baek.

“What will you do, Instructor Ha?”

He had already decided to accept Dang Ja-cheong’s proposal.

However, to do so, he would inevitably have to engage in a martial duel with the Sichuan Tang Family Head, Dang Mu-ryeong.

He wasn’t confident he would lose, but it was still a troublesome matter.

Therefore, Ha Mu-baek confirmed one thing with Dang Ja-cheong.

“Two hundred Blood Poison Pills. Are you certain?”

“That’s right.”

“When will you have them prepared?”

This was also an important matter.

“I’ll send them to the Maengryong Corps at Gyoryong Hall today. Since you must come to Namman with me, who should I send them to?”

Dang Ja-cheong answered as if it were nothing.

‘He said they were precious…’

Something didn’t seem to add up.

“Father. There are only three hundred fifty remaining in the estate.”

Dang Mu-ryeong interjected.

“I have about fifty myself. I can use one of my five authorities to make this happen.”

“Then four will remain, Father.”

At Dang Mu-ryeong’s words, Dang Ja-cheong still seemed unconcerned.

Ha Mu-baek.

Just what was this man that made him so important?

For Ha Mu-baek, it was a quite satisfactory proposal.

Since he said he’d send them to the Maengryong Corps today, he could just ask to have them sent to Han Seol-bing.

To do that, first.

He had to defeat the Tang Family Head before him to prove his skill.

“Where shall we do this?”

Ha Mu-baek asked Dang Mu-ryeong with a slight smile.

“Let’s go to the training ground.”

As Dang Mu-ryeong was about to take the lead and move.

“Wait.”

Dang Ja-cheong stopped him.

The outcome was obvious to see.

Still, he had to preserve his dignity as Family Head.

Thinking this was his duty as a father, Dang Ja-cheong made a different proposal.

“Let’s go to the Family Head’s Training Room.”

“What?”

Dang Mu-ryeong had no choice but to question Dang Ja-cheong’s words.

To hold a martial duel in the training room reserved only for the Tang Family Head.

Of course, it was spacious enough for a martial duel.

But the suggestion to bring an outsider into a space meant only for the Family Head was hard to readily accept.

“I’m saying this for your sake. Let’s go there.”

Then Dang Ja-cheong took the lead.

Since Ha Mu-baek and Dang Ji-yeon followed behind him, Dang Mu-ryeong had no choice but to go there as well, somewhat bewildered.

The training room prepared in the underground of Family Head Hall was made of sturdy blue stone.

Luminous stones embedded throughout emitted light, but being underground, the darkness was unavoidable.

Ha Mu-baek looked around the training room and then looked at Dang Ja-cheong.

“Must we do it here? The training ground would be more convenient…”

“I’d appreciate it if you could show some consideration for the situation.”

Dang Ja-cheong said with a gentle smile.

Ha Mu-baek nodded as if he couldn’t help it.

After all, he had secured two hundred Blood Poison Pills.

‘It’s sturdy, but… I should still gauge how much it can withstand.’

Since it was underground beneath Family Head Hall, he could potentially cause great damage to the Tang Family.

When Ha Mu-baek went all out.

The training room might not be able to withstand it.

At Ha Mu-baek’s question about whether they really had to do it here, Dang Mu-ryeong frowned.

“It would be better to go to the training ground even now, Father.”

Since Dang Mu-ryeong also wanted the training ground, he said so, but.

“I hope you’ll duel according to your respective honors and accept the results.”

Dang Ja-cheong proceeded with the duel by playing ignorant.

There were only two observers.

Dang Ja-cheong and Dang Ji-yeon.

Dang Ja-cheong had stopped all the escort warriors who tried to come along.

Thus, Dang Mu-ryeong faced Ha Mu-baek.

Dang Mu-ryeong unleashed the suppressed flames of anger and raised his qi aura.

A fierce wind arose around him.

Ha Mu-baek remained the same.

He was simply calm.

Dang Mu-ryeong glared at such a Ha Mu-baek.

There was nothing.

He was exactly as when they first met.

Nowhere was there a trace of a master.

‘Is this Half-Step Return to Truth?’

A realm where one’s achievement reaches the extreme and instead appears as an ordinary person.

It was also a realm that served as proof of the Super Peak level.

Judging by his father’s attitude, he must have reached at least that level of realm.

And achieving Half-Step Return to Truth and entering the Super Peak realm was the same for Dang Mu-ryeong himself.

Dang Mu-ryeong.

The strongest among the Sichuan Tang Family martial artists.

This meant he was the strongest among all martial artists currently existing in the Tang Family, including previous generation masters.

Though he didn’t inherit his father’s talent for poison, he instead possessed tremendous talent for martial arts.

‘Was it said that in martial arts, he had talent ranking in the top five in Tang Family history?’

Ha Mu-baek recalled the proud talk about his son that he had once heard from Dang Ja-cheong on the battlefield, seeing Dang Mu-ryeong’s current appearance.

Indeed.

It was worthy of such praise.

The appearance Dang Mu-ryeong was showing now was incredibly strong.

Now he was even beyond Peng Mu-ryang, the former Family Head of the Peng Family.

He was stronger than when he had learned the Destruction Art and his true martial power had become much more formidable.

‘Was it because he was crouched in Sichuan that no rumors spread?’

Ha Mu-baek looked surprised.

He thought that if there had been one more martial artist of such caliber during the Great Murim War, it would have been of great help.

‘Come to think of it. Sichuan rarely sent support.’

Except for the Mudo Recapture War, the Hocheon Corps had rarely supported Sichuan Province.

It was probably thanks to the man before his eyes, Dang Mu-ryeong.

Dang Mu-ryeong glared at Ha Mu-baek with fierce eyes.

Completely unaware of what evaluation Ha Mu-baek was making of him.

He concentrated on the sensation at his fingertips.

His hands moved lightly.

Blood butterflies flew toward Ha Mu-baek at invisible speed.

It was hidden weapon technique that had reached extreme swiftness.

The moment Ha Mu-baek raised his hand to strike down the blood butterflies.

Riding the air current created by that movement, the blood butterflies strangely changed direction and aimed directly at Ha Mu-baek’s eyes.

Ha Mu-baek avoided the blood butterflies by lightly tilting his head.

At that moment.

A black whip swept toward Ha Mu-baek’s waist.

Though imbued with yellow Gang Qi, the whip writhed like a dragon and moved with agile flexibility.

Ha Mu-baek had no choice but to move his feet.

‘Not bad.’

To make Ha Mu-baek move his feet this quickly.

Ha Mu-baek engaged in the martial duel with a bit more sincerity.

He was certainly strong.

He hadn’t thought such a powerful expert would be proudly positioned in Sichuan.

Among those he had met since coming to Gyoryong Hall.

At least excluding the Mad Monk and Tak Yo-beom who had been consumed by Gyoryong’s energy.

He was the strongest among the rest.

In terms of martial arts purely cultivated by oneself, he was the strongest.

Those two had relied on other powers.

Ha Mu-baek drew his sword.

White sword aura mingled with black whip energy.

Clang!

Kang!

Clang!

The sound of sword and whip clashing rang out.

A look of surprise appeared in the eyes of Dang Mu-ryeong as he wielded the whip.

Ha Mu-baek.

No matter how much that fellow was said to be a supreme expert who had reached the pinnacle.

He still thought he would be stronger.

After entering the supreme level, he had overcome one wall and was now facing another wall again.

Not all supreme experts were the same supreme experts.

That’s why he had been confident.

But Ha Mu-baek was blocking his whip far too easily.

Even though he was unleashing his full power.

A lion gives its all even when catching a rabbit.

That was the family tradition of the Tang Family.

Therefore, he showed no useless courtesies like yielding the first strike or giving a three-second advantage.

Wasn’t it Dang Mu-ryeong who had launched the first attack the moment he thought he saw an opening?

Yet he couldn’t overwhelm his opponent.

‘So this is indeed the skill worthy of Father’s high evaluation.’

His assessment of Ha Mu-baek changed slightly.

But still, he couldn’t trust and entrust Father’s safety to him.

While his right hand wielded the whip, his left hand began to move rapidly.

Two Minds Becoming One Art.

It wasn’t a Tang Family martial art.

It was a martial art he had obtained through a fortuitous encounter.

Dang Mu-ryeong had mastered it to the ultimate level, and thanks to that, he was able to reach the pinnacle.

And as he was demonstrating now.

He could deploy whip and hidden weapons simultaneously.

Both perfectly.

Yellow Dragon Ten Thousand Li Whip.

While the Tang Family’s supreme whip technique unfolded, surrounding Ha Mu-baek.

Blood butterflies, feather needles, ghost king bells, soul-severing threads.

All kinds of hidden weapons flew toward Ha Mu-baek using various techniques.

Ha Mu-baek’s sword moved rapidly, blocking the whip and hidden weapons.

He avoided those targeting vital positions by moving his body, and sometimes deployed Body Protection Energy to block them.

The coordination between the two was truly evenly matched.

“Ah…”

Dang Ji-yeon watched the martial duel in a daze.

Had the Tang Family’s martial arts been this beautiful?

Was this what the harmony of whip and hidden weapons was like?

Such thoughts occurred to her.

She felt inclined to learn the Two Minds Becoming One Art that her father had recommended.

Dang Ji-yeon knew as well.

Two Minds Becoming One Art.

That such a spectacle was possible thanks to this martial art that divided the mind in two.

And.

Ha Mu-baek also guessed that his opponent was using a type of dual-mind technique.

‘Dual-mind technique. The Tang Family wouldn’t have that… he must have had a fortuitous encounter.’

The dual-mind technique Dang Mu-ryeong displayed was at a very high level.

It must have reached the ultimate achievement.

However, there is no end to martial arts.

Ha Mu-baek’s eyes could see what came next.

The dual-mind technique.

Ha Mu-baek had also had the opportunity to learn it, but chose not to.

He had only kept it in memory.

It was because he judged it better to further refine one thing rather than do two things simultaneously.

However.

For the Tang Family, which possessed three ultimate techniques of whip, hidden weapons, and poison, dual-mind technique would certainly be worthwhile.

Whether Ha Mu-baek knew he was immune to all poisons, Dang Mu-ryeong wasn’t using poison.

Ha Mu-baek’s sword movements began to change.

If until now his sword had been responding to Dang Mu-ryeong’s offensive.

Now it was Ha Mu-baek’s turn to take the offensive.

‘I think I’ve given him enough face-saving.’

The sword’s movement became faster while becoming heavier.

It was absurd to become heavier yet faster.

But Ha Mu-baek was actually demonstrating it.

Thus.

Opening Heaven.

The moment the first form of the Infinite Adaptable Eight Absolute Sword Technique unfolded.

Dang Mu-ryeong gritted his teeth.

Yellow Dragon Ascension Wind Cloud Harmony.

He unleashed the final and strongest form of the Yellow Dragon Ten Thousand Li Whip.

Kwaaaaang!

A tremendous explosion erupted as the walls of the training room shook violently.

Pususuk.

And dust fell from the ceiling.

‘I should control my strength a bit.’

He could go even stronger from here, but then it seemed the training room might suffer massive damage.

Ha Mu-baek, who had plenty of leeway, surveyed his surroundings like that.

But Dang Mu-ryeong, who was giving his all, was different.

He focused solely on defeating the enemy before his eyes.

Yellow Dragon Ascension Wind Cloud Harmony unfolded once more.

Like a yellow dragon ascending to heaven, controlling wind and clouds to bring rain.

As the whip writhed, trying to devour Ha Mu-baek.

Ha Mu-baek also unfolded Opening Heaven once more to block his opponent’s attack and counterattack simultaneously, but in that instant.

Dang Mu-ryeong’s left hand showed phantom-like movement.

Ten Thousand Heavenly Flower Rain.

Flower rain filling the sky.

It was like rain scattered by an ascending dragon.

An exquisite harmony of whip and hidden weapons.

However.

The problem was that the true form of those flowers was hidden weapons.

A baptism of hidden weapons that filled Ha Mu-baek’s space.

Indeed.

It was a sight worthy of the Tang Family’s strongest, greatest, and final hidden weapon technique.

Ha Mu-baek changed his sword’s movement against the Tang Family’s strongest combination of whip and hidden weapons.

He tried to unfold Opening Heaven once more.

But judging that he couldn’t show an overwhelming display with that.

Second Severance.

He unfolded Severing Sunset.

Seogeak.

The yellow dragon soaring through the sky, ascending to heaven, was cut down as is.

Ha Mu-baek took a bold step to that spot.

Opening Heaven.

And then the First Severance of the Infinite Adaptable Eight Absolute Sword Technique unfolded again.

The storm of hidden weapons was swept up in that single sword strike and disappeared.

Movement ceased.

Ha Mu-baek too.

Dang Mu-ryeong too.

Ha Mu-baek’s sword tip was pointed toward Dang Mu-ryeong’s brow.

Dang Mu-ryeong was gripping the severed whip tightly in his hand with his arm hanging limply.

When struck by Severing Sunset.

Unable to overcome that powerful sword force, his shoulder had been dislocated.

Dang Mu-ryeong glared at Ha Mu-baek through gritted teeth.

Ha Mu-baek met those eyes with a calm gaze.

Soon.

Dang Mu-ryeong seemed to resign himself.

He closed both eyes.

“I have lost.”

It was an unexpectedly relieved voice.

At his acknowledgment, Ha Mu-baek withdrew his sword.

Dang Mu-ryeong grabbed his shoulder with his left hand and put the dislocated part back in place.

Without even a twitch of his eyebrow.

Dang Ji-yeon stared blankly at that sight.

The power of the sword that cut down Yellow Dragon Ascension Wind Cloud Harmony and subdued Ten Thousand Heavenly Flower Rain was tremendous.

But more than that, she.

Could not forget the spectacular sight shown by Yellow Dragon Ascension Wind Cloud Harmony and Ten Thousand Heavenly Flower Rain.

She didn’t think the two martial arts were lacking and thus defeated.

It was simply that Ha Mu-baek was stronger than her father.

“Hehe. Truly remarkable as always, you are. Well then, now it’s settled, isn’t it?”

Dang Ja-cheong let out a hearty laugh as he looked at his son.

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