The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 357
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Chapter 357. I Suppose Master Was Wrong…
Kwaaaaang!
With a tremendous sound.
The signboard of Cheondok Valley split apart.
Kurrrung.
And the mountain gate collapsed.
Myo Gu-eung, who smiled wickedly, lightly stepped over the debris of the mountain gate.
“I have returned. Cheondok Valley.”
He had truly returned in every sense.
It was the moment Myo Gu-eung first set foot in the territory of Cheondok Valley.
And so.
He passed through the mountain gate and moved forward with a face full of anticipation.
Tension appeared on people’s faces.
The one slowly walking into Cheondok Valley through the mountain gate.
Was gradually revealing the qi energy he had been concealing.
Thud. Thud.
It seemed as if such footsteps could be heard.
Yeo Hong-gi’s face gradually turned pale white.
It was because of the tremendous qi energy slowly approaching bit by bit.
Finally.
“No one’s here.”
The middle-aged man who revealed himself.
Myo Gu-eung.
He looked around his surroundings.
His two eyes stopped at the hall in the center of Cheondok Valley.
“Except for a few rats, that is.”
A calm murmur.
Kwang!
An empty warehouse was smashed to pieces by Myo Gu-eung’s playfully extended hand.
The five people came out of the hall.
And faced Myo Gu-eung.
“Hmm. As expected. All unfamiliar faces…”
Myo Gu-eung muttered as if uninterested.
He had thought at least one or two faces he knew would still be in Cheondok Valley.
He had put bait in a fish trap, but the prey hadn’t gathered and had all fled instead.
Whether they would gather, flee, or remain unaware of anything.
Among the three possibilities, this was the second situation.
Well, it didn’t matter either way.
No matter where in All Under Heaven they fled, they would die anyway.
Whether they died quickly or slowly, the difference was just timing—the result of death wouldn’t change.
After Cheondok Valley, he planned to slowly erase the entire Central Plains.
‘Anyway, I’ve spent the time needed to somewhat stabilize the Absolute Poison Realm. About fifty percent now, I suppose. I’m curious how long he’ll cling to that pathetic life of his.’
The people had no way of knowing Myo Gu-eung’s inner thoughts.
The poison energy of the Ten Thousand Year Poison Well was tremendous.
He had absorbed it all to achieve the Absolute Poison Realm’s Poison God Body and could freely control his hands and feet.
But he could instinctively feel that it wasn’t completely his own yet.
At first, it might have been a state where the poison well absorbed him rather than him absorbing the poison well.
However.
By slowly taking time to use the poison energy bit by bit and moving gradually.
Thanks to embodying that poison energy as truly his own.
He had now made half—fifty percent—completely his own.
Half was still not completely his own.
Exterminating countless villages in Namman with poison had also been part of the process of adapting to the Poison God Body’s poison arts.
It wasn’t just meant as a warning toward the Central Plains and Cheondok Valley.
“It’s been a long time, Sa-baek.”
Yeo Hong-gi was the first to speak.
At the title Sa-baek, Myo Gu-eung stared at Yeo Hong-gi intently.
Only his master’s disciples would call him Sa-baek.
He himself hadn’t taken any disciples at the time because no child caught his fancy.
Even searching his memory, he couldn’t tell who this person was.
The faces of those young ones from back then didn’t connect with this man’s current face.
“Who are you?”
So he asked.
Hearing it directly would be faster.
At that moment.
Ssaek!
A frost-like aura flying toward his neck with a sharp air-rending sound.
Myo Gu-eung hastily twisted his neck.
Seogek.
Even so, one side of his nape was cut and.
Puaaa!
A fountain of blood spurted up.
A young man entered Myo Gu-eung’s vision.
Drawing his sword and looking at him with profound eyes.
The people around Ha Mu-baek were startled.
They hadn’t expected him to suddenly draw his sword without a word and launch an attack so abruptly.
Moreover.
He had cleanly cut the thick blood vessel in the neck.
With such bleeding, it was as good as a fatal situation.
Despite all their tense pursuit until now.
It had ended with Ha Mu-baek’s single sword strike.
“Huh, like this…”
Dang Ja-cheong let out a hollow breath for a moment.
Dang Ji-yeon had a puzzled expression wondering if this was right.
Yeo Hong-gi had a shocked face saying this couldn’t be.
“Quick reflexes.”
Ha Mu-baek muttered indifferently while lightly shaking his sword clean.
“I was trying to cut your neck. You dodged well.”
When he saw a momentary opportunity.
He had tried to end it in one strike.
If he didn’t, it seemed like it would be quite troublesome.
From the beginning.
This was a bastard who had massacred countless innocent people in Namman with poison.
They had no right to speak of cowardice or such things.
But he dodged it.
Unfortunately.
Those around Ha Mu-baek expected the death of Yeo Hong-gi’s Sa-baek, Myo Gu-eung, but.
Ha Mu-baek’s thoughts were different.
Even while spitting out blood like that.
The qi energy inside him was incredibly calm.
“Enough with the games, don’t you think?”
At Ha Mu-baek’s words.
Heheh.
Myo Gu-eung raised the corners of his mouth in a smile.
His appearance, laughing while spitting blood from his throat, was incredibly grotesque.
“Ugh…”
Dang Ji-yeon unconsciously let out a thin moan.
Though she was a heroine of the martial world who shouldn’t be affected by such sights.
The atmosphere Myo Gu-eung created was that grotesque and terrifying.
“So not everyone left behind was worthless.”
The moment Myo Gu-eung spoke as if amused.
The blood from his throat gradually stopped.
And it healed cleanly as if there had never been a wound.
People widened their eyes at the sight.
Was such a thing possible, no matter how strong a human was?
“I ask again. Who are you?”
“…I am Yeo Hong-gi. Sa-baek.”
At Myo Gu-eung’s question, Yeo Hong-gi, who had regained his composure from shock, answered.
Myo Gu-eung nodded his head.
“So you’re Sa-geon’s top disciple. That means you’re the current valley lord?”
“That’s correct.”
Myo Gu-eung’s eyes turned toward Gong Dok-haeng.
“D-disciple Gong Dok-haeng pays respects to Great Grand Master.”
Gong Dok-haeng barely managed to say his name with a trembling voice.
Myo Gu-eung’s eyes turned toward Dang Ja-cheong.
“It’s been a long time, Senior Myo. I am Ja-cheong of the Tang Family.”
A strange light flickered in Myo Gu-eung’s eyes.
A child who wasn’t even ten years old had become such an old man calling him senior.
It was amusing.
Time was.
Myo Gu-eung’s eyes passed over Dang Ji-yeon and turned toward Ha Mu-baek.
The one who had delivered a fatal blow to him.
No, he had almost died as soon as arriving at the sect for revenge.
If his throat had been cut.
That would have been the end.
“I am Ha Mu-baek. And you?”
At Ha Mu-baek’s question, Myo Gu-eung smiled once again.
“Disciple of Yayul Han, Myo Gu-eung who should have become the true valley lord of Cheondok Valley. That is who I am.”
“How ridiculous.”
Ha Mu-baek sneered at Myo Gu-eung’s introduction.
“For a petty bastard who killed so many innocent people just because he couldn’t become valley lord, that introduction is far too grand.”
At Ha Mu-baek’s words, Myo Gu-eung’s eyebrows twitched.
“What does a young brat know to babble like that?”
Killing intent filled his voice.
At the same time, thick qi energy began flowing from his body.
At that moment.
“Ugh.”
Dang Ji-yeon groaned and stepped back.
She had no choice.
The deadly poison qi permeating the energy was slowly expanding its domain.
“Isn’t any circumstance just a matter of personal lack of ability?”
Qi energy began slowly flowing from Ha Mu-baek’s body as well.
“Ignorant little bastard… Kekek. Well then, was failing to stop a fellow disciple’s instigation also lack of ability? Though not being born in the Central Plains wouldn’t fall under the category of ability.”
The black qi energy began moving.
Targeting only one person, Ha Mu-baek.
It was because of the provocation.
Right now, no one else entered Myo Gu-eung’s vision.
“You speak incomprehensibly.”
With those words, Ha Mu-baek’s sword cut through Myo Gu-eung’s qi energy and flew toward his heart.
Bang!
A thick mass of condensed qi energy blocked Ha Mu-baek’s sword with a loud noise.
At the same time, Myo Gu-eung’s qi energy fluctuated from the impact.
The poison qi slowly spread outward.
Dang Ji-yeon retreated further.
The faces of Yeo Hong-gi, Dang Ja-cheong, and Gong Dok-haeng turned bright red.
“Not bad.”
Myo Gu-eung said, looking at Ha Mu-baek.
“That’s what I want to say.”
Ha Mu-baek faced Myo Gu-eung.
“Senior Myo. What do you mean by that? Instigation? Because he’s not from the Central Plains?”
Dang Ja-cheong, puzzled by his muttered words, asked urgently.
Myo Gu-eung’s gaze turned toward Dang Ja-cheong.
“Come to think of it, the Tang Family remained silent back then too. You couldn’t have been unaware. You even came to pay respects at Master’s funeral.”
Myo Gu-eung’s words.
The death of Cheondok Valley Lord Yayul Han.
The Tang Family naturally sent mourners. Though Dang Ja-cheong wasn’t part of that group.
But what did that have to do with anything?
“I suppose I should visit the Tang Family first. I was planning to go to a place called Gyoryong Hall.”
Myo Gu-eung’s words as he looked at Dang Ja-cheong and muttered.
“What?”
The reaction came from elsewhere.
Ha Mu-baek.
Thick killing intent began flowing from his body.
“You bastard, where do you think you’re going while leaking such dangerous qi energy?”
Myo Gu-eung’s gaze turned back to Ha Mu-baek.
He had thought the fellow was decent, but his aura had changed.
‘He might be troublesome.’
He raised his evaluation one level from decent to troublesome.
“Senior. After Valley Lord Yayul passed away, what happened?”
Cheondok Valley.
Yayul Han’s funeral was conducted normally.
What came after was abnormal.
Myo Gu-eung, who should have become valley lord, disappeared, and Wang Sa-geon became valley lord instead.
“You really don’t know? It seems your father didn’t tell you anything. Then ask that bastard over there. He probably hid it away, calling it his sect’s shame. Keke.”
Black energy flows out from Myo Gu-eung’s body once again.
The direction is toward where Yeo Hong-gi stands.
“You bastard. I’m the one asking questions here.”
Ha Mu-baek’s tremendous killing intent flew toward Myo Gu-eung.
The energy that was heading toward Yeo Hong-gi turned back.
It was to resist the killing intent that Ha Mu-baek was unleashing.
“What are you?”
For the first time, the emotion called surprise settled on Myo Gu-eung’s face.
Such was the power of the killing intent that Ha Mu-baek unleashed.
Even Myo Gu-eung, who had absorbed the Ten Thousand Year Poison Well, was surprised to this degree.
His energy changed.
Because he had encountered a formidable enemy.
He released all the poison energy from the poison well that he had been keeping in reserve.
“Urgh.”
Those who retreated with groans were.
Everyone except Ha Mu-baek.
Because it was tremendous poison energy.
Even if they wouldn’t be poisoned immediately, they couldn’t know what would happen if they remained defenseless.
They retreated backward while drawing up their internal energy.
Ha Mu-baek remained standing in that same spot.
However.
His interior was different.
The internal energy of the Mugeuk Yeoui Heart Method was resisting the poison energy trying to enter his body.
Myo Gu-eung kicked off the ground toward Ha Mu-baek.
Poison energy suddenly rising in his hand, no, a spear made of poison’s gang qi.
Poison Energy Spear.
Hissss.
Even the air where the spear passed was burned away by that poison energy.
Bang!
Ha Mu-baek’s sword and Myo Gu-eung’s spear collided, erupting in a tremendous roar.
Ha Mu-baek frowned.
He had blocked the spear, but.
The poison energy that rushed in at the moment of collision.
Thin blood flowed from the corner of Ha Mu-baek’s mouth.
“Ptui.”
Ha Mu-baek, who had stepped back one pace, quickly spat out the blood that had pooled in his mouth.
The blackened blood indicated that he had been poisoned.
Myo Gu-eung moved his spear without rest.
Clang! Clang clang!
Attack and defense colliding without cease.
Blood flows from the corner of Ha Mu-baek’s mouth once again.
Though he was blocking Myo Gu-eung’s poison from invading his body’s interior, he couldn’t avoid light poisoning.
A level like Ten Thousand Poisons Immunity was of no use whatsoever.
“Huh… How could. Ten Thousand Poisons Immunity be so futilely…”
He had expected it, but.
Confirming it directly with his own two eyes was different.
Dang Ja-cheong muttered in despair.
“It, it, it was true…”
Yeo Hong-gi muttered as if his soul had left him.
What the previous valley masters had called nothing more than an absurd fantasy and dream.
Myeongdokgong.
Though it was Myeongdokgong that had been lost after Myo Gu-eung and he had never seen it himself.
He had been able to hear about its absurdity from his master.
Yeo Hong-gi had also been able to confirm it while emptying the valley and waiting for Sa-baek’s visit.
The records left by previous valley masters that the current valley master could examine.
Mentions of it remained scattered throughout those records.
Martial arts that were nothing more than dreams, like delusions.
That was the summary.
Someone had left bitter mockery even though they were learning Myeongdokgong themselves.
Absolute Supreme Poison, Poison God Body.
Nonsensical levels that were nothing more than a child’s dream.
But now.
That delusion had become reality and manifested before their eyes.
They were merely exchanging attack and defense.
Yet wasn’t a master who had reached the level of Ten Thousand Poisons Immunity being poisoned and bleeding from the corner of his mouth?
It wasn’t just any level of Ten Thousand Poisons Immunity either.
Right now.
The one Myo Gu-eung was facing.
Was Ha Mu-baek, whom Yeon Ja-gyeong, the Family Head of the Hubei Yeon Family that was currently aiming for supremacy in all under heaven as a single force.
Recognized as the Number One Under Heaven.
It was him.
“Master… it seems Master was wrong…”
Yeo Hong-gi muttered with a despairing expression.
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