The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 361
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Chapter 361. It’s Somewhere
“So that’s how it is….”
Yeon Ja-gyeong ignited Samadhi True Fire and burned away the carrier hawk message he had been reading.
It was worth sending one of the fastest and longest-flying carrier hawks.
The carrier hawk message sent by Yeo Hong-gi reached Yeon Ja-gyeong’s hands in less than a day and disappeared like this.
Yeon Ja-gyeong looked at one section of the office wall.
A small secret vault hidden discreetly through a mechanical device.
The Internal Energy Scattering Poison was hidden there.
A very small amount of the scattering poison and its antidote were in Yeon Ja-gyeong’s possession.
“It was indeed a vicious scattering poison….”
Yeon Ja-gyeong suddenly recalled the time after Yeo Hong-gi had left.
Just like the previous time.
He had tested the Internal Energy Scattering Poison on his own body.
With the incomplete version, he had succeeded in moving his internal energy before the poison’s duration ended.
Thanks to that, he had also gained clues to a new realm.
However.
The Internal Energy Scattering Poison was different.
No matter what he tried, his internal energy would not return.
Only after a full day had passed.
His dantian and internal energy returned as if by magic.
The effort to regain internal energy while in a state without it.
That itself became a method of cultivation.
But unlike the incomplete version, he could not break through it in the end.
That’s why he thought it would be effective against Ha Mu-baek as Yeo Hong-gi had confidently claimed.
Indeed, when used on Ha Mu-baek who came to Cheondok Valley and the fierce beast of Namman, it worked on both of them.
It was encouraging news.
‘I did well to bring Valley Master Yeo under my command.’
Yeon Ja-gyeong once again gained confidence in his eye for people.
A smile spread across Yeon Ja-gyeong’s face.
It was a smile mixed with ambition and satisfaction.
***
‘How vicious.’
Ha Mu-baek had no choice but to acknowledge it.
Though he was using every method available.
His dantian would not return.
There wasn’t a trace of internal energy in his body.
A full day.
If he had to remain like this for that duration.
Myo Gu-eung.
He would miss the opportunity to easily capture that bastard.
That could not happen.
Ha Mu-baek sank deep into his inner self and contemplated himself.
His completely empty interior.
Though it shouldn’t be empty, it was empty.
Just because he couldn’t feel it now didn’t mean it wasn’t there.
A situation where it existed but he couldn’t find its existence.
‘It’s definitely there. It’s somewhere.’
Ha Mu-baek did not rush.
Because rushing in urgency could lead to minor mistakes.
Wasn’t there a saying that the more urgent it is, the more you should take a detour?
Ha Mu-baek carefully examined his interior one by one, as if counting on his fingers.
Taking this opportunity to do spring cleaning.
Even deciding to organize parts that he hadn’t been able to organize until now.
As he slowly and thoroughly searched his interior like this.
Finally, there were two things that caught his attention.
Very faint traces of fire energy, and traces of ice energy.
The fire energy and ice energy that had been absorbed through the Mugeuk Yeoui Heart Method.
And.
‘How foolish of me.’
Ha Mu-baek blamed himself.
Another internal energy mental method he had obtained during his last trip to the North Sea.
Having focused on the sect’s Mugeuk Yeoui Heart Method, he hadn’t thought of the new power he had gained.
Ice Crystal Radiant Great Heaven Power.
It was an internal energy mental method, yet it wasn’t an internal energy mental method.
A great method for manipulating the energy of Radiance.
Fire energy and ice energy, which were internal energy yet different independent energies from internal energy.
The Ice Crystal Radiant Great Heaven Power that operated those energies themselves, or rather, now that he had gathered all fragments of Radiance to complete it, it should properly be called simply Radiant Great Heaven Power.
That existed.
Ha Mu-baek began to operate the Radiant Great Heaven Power.
The fire energy and ice energy that had been nothing more than faintly discovered traces.
The two energies began to respond.
It was the Radiant Great Heaven Power that had reached a certain level in a day’s time at Ice Heaven Palace.
Now he devoted time to the Radiant Great Heaven Power once again.
The fire energy and ice energy that seemed to have only traces remaining began to flow out like thin threads and move.
One strand of fire energy, one strand of ice energy.
The two chased each other.
They began to slowly spin round and round, trying to bite each other’s tails.
The energy that began to unravel strand by strand gradually grew thicker.
‘So this was where it was.’
Following the energy that flowed out like unraveling thread, going back and back.
His dantian existed in that place.
Ha Mu-baek’s dantian that contained enormous energy.
However.
That door was firmly closed.
The thing called scattering poison had become a door and locked it shut.
Fire energy and ice energy flowed out through the gaps.
Even the scattering poison couldn’t block just that.
Because it wasn’t internal energy.
Was it because they were pure energies?
The energies of the flood dragon and ice crystal.
Though he thought he had completely made them his own through the Mugeuk Yeoui Heart Method.
Their essence itself seemed to remain as pure energy.
Therefore, avoiding the effects of the Internal Energy Scattering Poison, following the guidance of the Radiance Great Heaven Power, it gradually grew larger in size.
As the qi energy grew larger, its movement speed also increased.
The enormous fire energy and ice energy.
The two spun rapidly in circles, and finally bit each other’s tails tightly.
The two energies, taking on a form like the taiji symbol and spinning in circles.
Became a single solid orb.
Like another dantian positioned beside the dantian.
Like the inner core of a divine beast.
He decided to think about what to call this later.
It wasn’t important at the moment.
The condensed mass of qi energy took firm root inside Ha Mu-baek.
Which meant.
The Internal Energy Scattering Poison was completely useless.
Ha Mu-baek’s eyes snapped open.
Red and blue light poured out.
Ha Mu-baek unfolded his cross-legged sitting position and stood up.
He walked out step by step.
Sensing his movement, Dang Ja-cheong came out of the temporary shelter.
Ha Mu-baek’s appearance with haze-like energy rising from his entire body.
“You…”
There was still some time left until the day Yeo Hong-gi had mentioned.
Yet he appeared to have recovered his internal energy.
Perhaps sensing the qi energy Ha Mu-baek was emitting, Yeo Hong-gi also appeared with Gong Dok-haeng.
And upon confirming Ha Mu-baek’s appearance, his eyes widened.
“H-how…”
Yeo Hong-gi trembled, filled with shock.
“It was quite something.”
Ha Mu-baek glanced at Yeo Hong-gi and said a word.
Then turned his body.
Now he had to pursue.
Myo Gu-eung.
There was still some time left until the day.
He couldn’t miss this opportunity while the enemy hadn’t recovered his internal energy.
Ha Mu-baek leaped into the air.
There was no need to expand his ki sense to find traces.
The creatures that had withered and died black.
Were showing the path Myo Gu-eung had fled.
Ha Mu-baek kicked off and ran along that path.
His eyebrows twitched.
‘A strange sense of disconnect. Is this unavoidable for now?’
He had used the Radiance Great Heaven Power to create another dantian with fire energy and ice energy.
It was inevitably different from the internal energy that had been like his own body until now.
Nevertheless, Ha Mu-baek had no choice but to move.
There was no reason to make an easy path difficult.
As he kicked off the ground and shot forward in an instant.
A small cave came into view.
‘Is that the place?’
Outside the cave, he could see the corpse of a bear that had died from poison.
He expanded his ki sense again.
The ki sense gradually extended its range.
When its end reached that cave.
Ha Mu-baek’s expression twisted fiercely.
Though he had clearly lost his internal energy to the Internal Energy Scattering Poison.
He could feel tremendous poison energy dwelling in his body.
‘Is it similar to me?’
Though he couldn’t release internal energy.
He was using the qi energy inherent within his body.
Ha Mu-baek increased his speed even more.
Whoosh.
Flames blazed up in his right hand.
***
The moment Myo Gu-eung stood up, he released poison energy throughout his entire body.
And began to move his steps.
His intention was to sweep away everything at once.
What was his name, Ha Mu-baek?
That bastard’s actions had been impressive.
When he felt threatened, he swung his sword without hesitation.
Unlike a righteous sect warrior who values dignity.
His actions felt more like someone from the military who had rolled around battlefields rather than a martial artist.
That was the feeling.
“I should be the same way.”
Myo Gu-eung muttered quietly.
The desire for revenge seated deep in his heart.
This rage he intended to unleash beyond Cheondok Valley to the entire Central Plains.
He should have melted everything from the beginning.
He had learned greatly.
Wasn’t it because he didn’t do so that he fell victim to that bastard’s pathetic Internal Energy Scattering Poison?
Though as a blessing in disguise, his mastery of the Ten Thousand Desolations Soul-Stealing Underworld Poison Art had risen.
As he had decided, Myo Gu-eung moved his steps while emitting qi energy with the momentum to melt everything.
The moment he passed through the short cave and stepped foot at the entrance.
He witnessed enormous flames rushing toward him.
Though it was too sudden.
Myo Gu-eung was not flustered.
Wasn’t there poison energy billowing around him?
Following his lightly waved hand.
Black mist swirled and blocked the roughly incoming flames.
Kuaaang!
The atmosphere roared and the earth trembled.
Myo Gu-eung looked beyond the flames.
“So it was you after all…”
The moment he saw the flames, he intuited.
That not only he, but that bastard had also escaped from the Internal Energy Scattering Poison.
“You recovered quite quickly.”
Ha Mu-baek spoke as if displeased.
Separately from that, the flames rising from Ha Mu-baek’s fingertips surged even more fiercely.
Myo Gu-eung was no pushover either.
Poison mist covered all directions.
Kuuuuuung!
Chiiiiik. Chiik.
Burning the poison.
The flames died down.
The qi energy of the two men collided and collided again without retreating even an inch.
“What a monster.”
Myo Gu-eung muttered as he looked at Ha Mu-baek.
To think that a human who could stand against his power after absorbing the Ten Thousand Year Poison Well would be his first opponent.
He still couldn’t believe it.
Surely there weren’t more guys like this in the Central Plains?
The thought briefly crossed his mind.
But he soon dismissed it.
At least the skills of the Sichuan Tang Family’s Grand Young Master and Cheondok Valley’s valley master were as expected.
Considering the status those two held in the Central Plains’ murim.
This bastard before his eyes was the monster.
However.
What good was being a monster alone?
More importantly.
This guy wasn’t a target of revenge.
Since he met him at Cheondok Valley and blocked his path.
A fact he had momentarily forgotten.
When erasing the Central Plains.
He would have to erase this guy too.
But what Myo Gu-eung was trying to do right now was erase Cheondok Valley.
There was no reason to waste time grappling with this guy here.
“Let’s see you block this too!”
Black poison energy billowed up from every pore of his body.
Becoming mist, becoming clouds, it flew in all directions.
Hwareureureuk!
Soul Crushing unfolded.
With the sword he had drawn at some point.
Based on fire energy operated through Radiance Great Heaven Power.
The Soul Crushing of the Infinite Adaptable Eight Absolute Sword Technique stretched out.
However.
The amount of qi energy Myo Gu-eung released was far too massive.
Though Ha Mu-baek deployed Soul Crushing with the intention of trapping all the qi energy.
The poison energy that escaped through that net rode the wind, rode the flow of air.
And flowed behind Ha Mu-baek.
At the end of that path.
Cheondok Valley was located.
“Damn it.”
Ha Mu-baek cursed and turned his body.
He had to block that poison energy.
Ha Mu-baek was currently in a state of drawing up fire energy.
Though the poison energy Myo Gu-eung was releasing had reached Ha Mu-baek’s vicinity, it all burned away in the fire energy and disappeared.
Ha Mu-baek was currently in a state unaffected by Myo Gu-eung’s poison energy.
But.
Dang Ja-cheong and Dang Ji-yeon were different.
With this tremendous poison energy.
There was no telling what might happen to the two of them.
No matter how much they possessed antidote pills and had bodies with Ten Thousand Poisons Immunity.
Just as Ha Mu-baek was about to kick off the ground.
Black clouds fell from midair.
“Where are you trying to go? You should face me here.”
Myo Gu-eung’s poison energy surrounded Ha Mu-baek on all sides.
Following Ha Mu-baek’s movements as he swung and swept his sword and arms, fierce flames blazed up.
Though he burned Myo Gu-eung’s poison energy like that.
The endlessly surging poison energy held Ha Mu-baek’s ankles.
Ha Mu-baek gritted his teeth.
His heart was gradually becoming impatient.
Myo Gu-eung focused only on holding Ha Mu-baek’s ankles with an expression showing he was in no hurry.
Meanwhile, he continuously sent poison energy flowing toward Cheondok Valley behind Ha Mu-baek.
The thought that this would make Ha Mu-baek anxious and eventually his movements would become disorderly.
Indeed, Myo Gu-eung’s intention was somewhat working on Ha Mu-baek.
Ha Mu-baek was gradually feeling the pressure that he needed to hurry.
Because he had promised the Tang Family Head to take responsibility for Dang Ja-cheong and Dang Ji-yeon’s safety.
Because Ha Mu-baek was someone who always kept his word once given.
Now that their safety was in danger.
He couldn’t help but think he needed to hurry.
However.
His movements didn’t become disorderly.
Ha Mu-baek had accumulated far too much experience over the years for that.
‘Being urgent and rushing would be poison instead. Right now, I have no choice but to trust those two people, to trust the elder.’
Ha Mu-baek still gritting his teeth.
The fire energy flowing from his body blazed even more fiercely toward Myo Gu-eung’s poison.
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