The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 360
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Chapter 360. I Really Like It
“Are you telling me to believe those words right now?”
Ha Mu-baek asked with an expression that said ‘not a chance’ and a voice filled with killing intent.
However.
Yeo Hong-gi looked straight at Ha Mu-baek with confident eyes.
“There is none.”
“Can you take responsibility for those words?”
“Hmph. What can you do now without even a handful of internal energy?”
Since Ha Mu-baek was definitely poisoned by the Purple Light Acid Poison.
There was no reason for Yeo Hong-gi to yield.
He had confidence, and Gong Dok-haeng was there too.
Of course, Dang Ja-cheong and Dang Ji-yeon were on the other side.
Dang Ja-cheong, who had approached Ha Mu-baek’s side at some point.
“Instructor Ha. Please calm down for now. And Valley Master Yeo. If you have an antidote, please give it quickly. You know from experience, don’t you? If we don’t kill him now. What will happen…”
“…”
At Dang Ja-cheong’s persuasion, Yeo Hong-gi closed his mouth.
He understood the meaning of those words.
But Yeo Hong-gi was confident.
If he couldn’t endure the Purple Light Acid Poison.
He wouldn’t be able to endure that either.
That was something he was cautious about using because there truly was no antidote for it.
“There isn’t much time. Internal Energy Scattering Poison isn’t something that works forever either. Anyway, as time passes, both I and that bastard will regain our strength. Can you take responsibility for what will happen then?”
Ha Mu-baek pressed Yeo Hong-gi once more.
Now.
If only Ha Mu-baek could regain his internal energy.
Perhaps it could be an opportunity.
To eliminate the bastard who had lost his internal energy.
On the other hand, if that bastard safely escaped.
And regained his internal energy.
He would return more cunning, using his recent battle with him as experience.
“I don’t know what happened, but I heard that bastard escaped your Master’s pursuit decades ago. And today he returned as a monster. If we let him go again today, how will he return next time?”
Ha Mu-baek’s continued words.
“Phew.”
Yeo Hong-gi let out a long sigh.
Actually.
When he threw the Purple Light Acid Poison.
He had aimed for Ha Mu-baek as well.
While hoping for the heavenly fortune of dealing with both if things went well.
The result was both being poisoned.
It was a success.
However.
Even so, he hadn’t known that Myo Gu-eung could spew out such terrible poison.
Having let one escape like that.
The situation with only Ha Mu-baek remaining.
Right now, he could deal with Ha Mu-baek himself.
But it was realistically impossible because of Dang Ja-cheong nearby.
No, if even a little Purple Light Acid Poison remained, he could have neutralized even Dang Ja-cheong and dealt with Ha Mu-baek.
But.
There was nothing left.
Faced with Myo Gu-eung’s monster-like appearance.
Not knowing whether it would work or not, hadn’t he thrown everything he had?
‘Did I make the same mistake as with Other Second Light Death?’
Yeo Hong-gi suddenly had that thought.
But no.
He didn’t only have Purple Light Acid Poison.
Perhaps he could make his opponent think this was all he had.
“There is an antidote. But there isn’t.”
An answer that didn’t even sound like words came from Yeo Hong-gi’s mouth.
When Ha Mu-baek’s face contorted with rage.
Yeo Hong-gi’s words continued.
“I definitely made an antidote. But I don’t have it with me. The person who supported everything needed to research and create it, that person has it all.”
Ha Mu-baek’s mouth, which was about to burst with angry shouts, stopped.
An antidote exists.
But Yeo Hong-gi doesn’t have it.
Yeo Hong-gi, who is the Valley Master of Cheondok Valley?
“Who is it?”
“The Yeon Family Head.”
At the returned answer, Ha Mu-baek’s face contorted even more severely.
However, he didn’t press Yeo Hong-gi any further.
That old monster was certainly capable of such a thing.
He remembered the eyes of that old monster looking at him and the Alliance Leader every time they met during the Great Murim War.
They were eyes full of ambition.
The way he looked at him was the way one looks at an obstacle to ambition.
Moreover.
Due to the incident with his son, they had created an enmity that hadn’t existed before.
Ha Mu-baek’s mind moved quickly even in this situation.
“I was the target, wasn’t I?”
It was Internal Energy Scattering Poison that could break through even Ten Thousand Poisons Immunity and erase internal energy.
If Yeon Family Head Yeon Ja-gyeong was the one who had this made, his intention was obvious.
However, Yeo Hong-gi was not easy to deal with.
“He only told me to make it in preparation for contingencies.”
There was no way he would readily admit to that intention.
“Damn it.”
Ha Mu-baek didn’t press Yeo Hong-gi any further.
He had accepted his words.
If it was the Yeon Ja-gyeong that Ha Mu-baek knew.
Even if Yeo Hong-gi had created the poison, he wouldn’t let him possess the antidote.
“How long does this last?”
“One day.”
“Understood.”
Having answered thus, Ha Mu-baek suddenly entered any empty building.
The four people who remained like that.
“Huh. You’re remarkable. Internal Energy Scattering Poison that neutralizes Ten Thousand Poisons Immunity…”
“Huh. You’re quite something. A mountain attack poison that neutralizes the immunity to ten thousand poisons…”
Dang Ja-cheong was amazed.
And he looked at Yeo Hong-gi with wary eyes.
He knew that if Yeo Hong-gi still had more of that poison, even he wouldn’t be safe.
“I used all the small amount I had on Sa-baek. I wasn’t sure what would happen. Fortunately, it seems to have worked on Sa-baek as well… but there’s no more left.”
Dang Ja-cheong believed those words.
If there had been any remaining, he could have used it on him in the previous situation.
“Then. What will you do after a day has passed?”
Dang Ja-cheong’s question.
Yeo Hong-gi gave a bitter smile.
Because there was no solution.
Perhaps taking that smile as an answer.
Dang Ja-cheong nodded.
“May I use an empty room?”
“Please use it as you wish. Thank you.”
Even though they now had a day to avoid their bodies.
It was gratitude toward Dang Ja-cheong for deciding to remain in Cheondok Valley.
Ha Mu-baek immediately sat cross-legged and entered meditation.
The Internal Energy Scattering Poison that would work for a day.
He had to break through this.
At that moment.
Yeo Hong-gi sent a carrier hawk message to Muchang.
He had no expectation that Yeon Ja-gyeong would help.
He simply informed him that the Purple Light Acid Poison had been effective against Sa-baek Myo Gu-eung and Ha Mu-baek, and about the power that Myo Gu-eung possessed.
To prepare for when Myo Gu-eung crossed Cheondok Valley and entered the Central Plains.
Currently, Yeon Ja-gyeong was the only one who possessed Purple Light Acid Poison.
‘Divine Annihilation is…’
Unfortunately, he hadn’t brought it.
Because he hadn’t made an antidote yet.
What if he had brought it?
It was just a pointless assumption.
Yeo Hong-gi shook his head and his gaze deepened.
That direction was where Ha Mu-baek had holed up.
What would truly happen?
***
“Huff. Huff.”
How long had he run?
Myo Gu-eung exhaled rough breaths.
He looked back.
The plants along the path he had taken were dying, turning black.
If there were pursuers, it was a trail they could easily follow.
However, he couldn’t help it.
He couldn’t control the Formless Poison flowing out of his body at will.
Though he had been able to escape thanks to the Formless Poison.
Because of it, he was completely exposing his traces.
“Damn it.”
Myo Gu-eung looked down at his dantian.
As if it had disappeared, he couldn’t feel anything.
Thanks to that, the poison energy inside his body was still running wild.
He had to do something about this somehow.
After catching his breath briefly, Myo Gu-eung ran again.
There seemed to be no pursuit for now.
But he didn’t know when they might catch up.
If it was Yeo Hong-gi who had used the Internal Energy Scattering Poison on him.
He would surely possess an antidote.
He had to flee even further.
Myo Gu-eung, who had no way of knowing the situation in Cheondok Valley, truly ran with all his might, continuing to run and run.
How long had he run like that?
Only after the sun set and night came did he stop walking.
A cave he found by continuously moving.
It was a place a bear used as its home.
But the moment it encountered Myo Gu-eung.
Poisoned by the Formless Poison, the bear died on the spot.
Myo Gu-eung settled inside the cave and sat cross-legged.
The effect of the Internal Energy Scattering Poison wasn’t infinite.
Someday his internal energy would return.
Since he didn’t know when that would be.
He had to find a solution quickly.
Myo Gu-eung closed both eyes and contemplated his interior.
His internal energy had truly melted away like snow, and instead poison energy was surging violently.
This was becoming Formless Poison and flowing out of his body.
The energy of the poison well that he had certainly absorbed but hadn’t been able to make completely his own.
To control and dissolve this, he needed internal energy.
But.
He had no internal energy.
Because of the Internal Energy Scattering Poison.
No matter how much he tried to operate the Ten Thousand Desolations Soul-Stealing Underworld Poison Art.
This poison energy wouldn’t budge at all.
Because Myeongdokgong was ultimately martial arts based on internal energy.
‘Damn it. Is there no way… no way to move internal energy?’
While contemplating his interior, Myo Gu-eung.
Examined and re-examined the traditional formula of the Ten Thousand Desolations Soul-Stealing Underworld Poison Art.
It was the world’s greatest poison arts.
It was poison arts that could absorb the ten-thousand-year poison well.
Such poison arts couldn’t be neutralized by mere Internal Energy Scattering Poison.
‘It’s the Ten Thousand Desolations Soul-Stealing Underworld Poison Art. If I had just a handful, no, just a breath of internal energy. If only I had a dantian… if I could somehow revive just one breath’s worth of internal energy…’
As he examined the traditional formula, agonized, and desperately pondered.
Myo Gu-eung suddenly realized.
‘Hm? One breath of internal energy? Internal energy? Internal energy? What is internal energy?’
The essence of internal energy.
It was ultimately the energy that exists in nature, and the energy that humans innately possess when born into the great nature.
Innate True Energy and Acquired True Energy.
Recognizing their existence, Myo Gu-eung examined his own Innate True Energy.
Using Innate True Energy might mean using one’s own lifespan.
But right now, such things weren’t important.
One breath of internal energy.
That was exactly what Myo Gu-eung desperately needed.
However.
Yeo Hong-gi’s Internal Energy Scattering Poison was vicious.
The Innate True Energy remained intact.
But it was hardened like stone.
Unlike the internal energy in his dantian, it hadn’t disappeared.
But it was frozen solid.
No matter how hard he tried, it wouldn’t move.
It was truly a terrifying Internal Energy Scattering Poison.
To think his disciple had created such a thing.
Truly befitting his sect, Cheondok Valley.
Myo Gu-eung’s thoughts returned to the beginning.
His Innate True Energy was blocked.
Then what about Acquired True Energy.
That was something accumulated in the dantian by absorbing nature’s qi through breathing.
Though he didn’t have even a breath’s worth of internal energy now.
He could still breathe.
Nature’s qi entered and left his body through his breathing.
That’s right.
Internal energy existed.
More precisely, nature’s qi existed.
He just needed to turn this into a handful of internal energy.
Originally, internal energy was created from qi absorbed through breathing.
Even if his dantian seemed to have disappeared.
What did it matter.
When he first learned martial arts, when he first learned internal energy.
He didn’t even know his dantian existed.
One becomes aware of the dantian’s existence only after feeling internal energy.
So Myo Gu-eung felt and moved internal energy through his breathing.
That handful of internal energy he had so desperately wanted.
It was created.
What came next.
Was swift progress.
The handful of internal energy began moving according to the incantation formula of Ten Thousand Desolations Soul-Stealing Underworld Poison Art, combining with the poison qi remaining in his body.
Half the energy of the Ten Thousand Year Poison Essence that he hadn’t yet completely made his own.
He began slowly absorbing it.
Myo Gu-eung sank deeply into his own world.
‘So this is how it was.’
It had become a blessing in disguise.
The poison qi that had been chaotically mixed with his internal energy.
The poison qi whose existence he couldn’t accurately perceive while absorbing it.
Now only that poison qi filled him completely.
There was no hindrance in completely making the poison qi his own through Myeongdokgong.
The poison qi he hadn’t fully assimilated began racing through his blood meridians without obstruction, being absorbed.
The energy he absorbed this way gathered in a round mass where his dantian should be.
He had created another dantian, not the one whose existence was forgotten due to the Internal Energy Scattering Poison.
However, its composition was completely different from a dantian.
In the newly created dantian, there was only a handful of internal energy.
A dantian composed entirely of poison qi, guided by that internal energy.
A small poison essence had been created inside Myo Gu-eung.
Around that time.
Internal energy gradually returned.
Myo Gu-eung opened his eyes.
“Kihik. Even better. Really good. A poison essence, a poison essence. A human possessing a poison essence. Kukukuk.”
It was a realm not even mentioned in Ten Thousand Desolations Soul-Stealing Underworld Poison Art.
Who would have thought such a thing was possible.
The dantian that regained its place after the effects of the Internal Energy Scattering Poison disappeared began exchanging energy with the newly positioned poison essence.
Two spheres touched, and internal energy and poison qi flowed back and forth without rest.
Power overflowed throughout his body.
“Kuhuhuhuhuh.”
Laughter flowed from Myo Gu-eung’s mouth.
It contained all kinds of emotions.
The time when he felt the threat of death again and fled.
The resentment over that miserable time was contained in his laughter.
“Wait for me. I’ll melt you all down in one go.”
Myo Gu-eung rose from his position.
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