The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 364

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Chapter 364. Is This the End?

 

 

 

 

 

When Ha Mu-baek returned.

 

Dang Ja-cheong was pressing his palm heart against Dang Ji-yeon’s Life Gate Acupoint with a serious expression, infusing qi energy into her.

 

He had activated the Ten Thousand Streams Return Origin Poison Technique to lend strength in Dang Ji-yeon’s fight against the poison.

 

This was thanks to Ha Mu-baek freezing and taking away all the poison energy from the surroundings when he left this place.

 

However.

 

Dang Ji-yeon’s condition was serious.

 

Not only her hands and feet, but even her face had turned completely black.

 

The parts covered by clothing would likely be the same.

 

Her skin that had been white as jade was now the result of poisoning.

 

As if she had become an ink person.

 

The person had turned completely black.

 

Poison energy flowed out from her breathing as well.

 

Even though that poison energy was flowing back into Dang Ja-cheong and poisoning him, Dang Ja-cheong paid no heed.

 

He gave his all solely to save his granddaughter.

 

Ha Mu-baek wanted to help as well.

 

But there was no qi energy left in his body right now.

 

He hurriedly entered energy circulation.

 

Hoping she would endure well.

 

A moment later.

 

Ha Mu-baek recovered his internal energy to some degree and opened his eyes.

 

Along with the recovery of internal energy, his fire energy and ice energy were also partially restored.

 

In the meantime, Dang Ja-cheong’s poisoning seemed to have progressed as his face had turned bluish-purple.

 

If it progressed further, he too would turn black.

 

Fortunately, Dang Ji-yeon hadn’t gotten any worse.

 

However.

 

The light of the Poison Immunity Bead positioned on her chest was gradually growing dimmer.

 

A sign that the Poison Immunity Bead’s limit was approaching.

 

“I’ll take over from now.”

 

Ha Mu-baek approached and said.

 

But Dang Ja-cheong didn’t easily move aside.

 

He had no choice.

 

They were barely holding on by operating the Ten Thousand Streams Return Origin Poison Technique together – the one Dang Ji-yeon had learned and he had mastered to ultimate achievement.

 

To cut that off now?

 

It was a dangerous attempt.

 

“Can you save her?”

 

He asked with difficulty, barely opening his mouth.

 

“…”

 

Ha Mu-baek couldn’t answer.

 

Because even he couldn’t be certain.

 

“The moment I withdraw the Ten Thousand Streams Return to Origin Technique. The poison energy will devour Yeon-ah…”

 

Dang Ja-cheong’s voice flowed out faintly as he barely moved his lips to speak.

 

Ha Mu-baek activated his Infinite Bright Wheel Eye.

 

The one that had briefly stopped after exhausting all energy.

 

Dang Ji-yeon’s interior came into Ha Mu-baek’s view.

 

Though completely invaded by poison energy.

 

Her dantian, heart, and brain.

 

Only these three places were barely being protected.

 

It was a precarious situation.

 

This was the moment Dang Ja-cheong’s words became understandable.

 

The brief blank moment when Dang Ja-cheong would withdraw his internal energy and Ha Mu-baek would infuse his internal energy to establish position.

 

In that time.

 

The poison energy would probably devour all of Dang Ji-yeon’s dantian, heart, and brain.

 

The result would be.

 

Death.

 

This was why Dang Ja-cheong was desperately infusing internal energy into Dang Ji-yeon even while poisoning himself.

 

Truly a precarious situation like a candle in the wind.

 

Dang Ja-cheong couldn’t remove his hand from Dang Ji-yeon’s Life Gate Acupoint.

 

‘Then.’

 

Ha Mu-baek carefully grasped the wrist of Dang Ji-yeon who was sitting cross-legged.

 

Dang Ji-yeon flinched in response.

 

But that was about it.

 

The pulse point.

 

It was to infuse his internal energy through there.

 

In fact, it was an extremely dangerous action.

 

While someone else was already infusing internal energy through the Life Gate Acupoint to help resist the poison energy.

 

For someone who had learned completely different internal energy to inject internal energy through the pulse point.

 

It was dangerous action that could rather lead to qi deviation and death.

 

But Dang Ja-cheong didn’t stop him.

 

Right now, they had to grasp at even straws.

 

Dang Ja-cheong clearly recognized the current situation.

 

Even though he was desperately giving his all to infuse internal energy like this now.

 

All he was doing was merely delaying his granddaughter’s death.

 

The moment the Poison Immunity Bead that Dang Ji-yeon possessed exhausted its power.

 

Dang Ja-cheong alone couldn’t handle it.

 

When his granddaughter met her end like that, the backlash would cause his own poisoning to reach a serious situation as well.

 

In the end, he too couldn’t avoid death.

 

Even knowing that a desperate ending was before his eyes, unable to avoid it and slowly approaching that destination.

 

He could only hope that Ha Mu-baek would do something, anything.

 

Even if the result of that attempt was death.

 

Since he knew that both would die like this anyway.

 

Ha Mu-baek sat cross-legged facing Dang Ji-yeon and closed his eyes while grasping her pulse point.

 

He carefully let a stream of internal energy flow in.

 

Since the internal energy of the Mugeuk Yeoui Heart Method was gentle yet harmonized well with any internal energy.

 

He slowly explored Dang Ji-yeon’s interior.

 

However. It wasn’t easy.

 

Because poison energy filled every part of her blood meridians with not even a thread-like gap.

 

It wasn’t easy for Ha Mu-baek to move his internal energy.

 

Using the path that Dang Ja-cheong’s infused Ten Thousand Streams Return Origin Poison Technique had barely created, he carefully examined Dang Ji-yeon’s interior.

 

‘It’s serious.’

 

The poison energy had invaded not only her blood meridians but even her meridian cleansing.

 

Truly just her dantian, heart, and brain.

 

A situation where only those were barely being protected.

 

Thanks to the Poison Immunity Bead’s efficacy, her blood meridians and meridian cleansing were enduring without melting from the poison energy.

 

Of course, Dang Ja-cheong’s help was significant.

 

The moment either one of them disappeared.

 

Blood meridians and pulse meridians, dantian, heart, and brain would melt away instantly.

 

What would come next.

 

The entire body would melt, leaving only a handful of poison.

 

Right now, there was no way to control that poison energy from the outside.

 

The moment Ha Mu-baek tried to drive out the poison energy.

 

By pushing his internal energy into her.

 

Rather, her blood meridians would be unable to withstand it and burst.

 

It was truly a situation with no way forward or back.

 

A situation where he could neither advance to remove the poison energy, nor retreat leaving the poison energy behind.

 

‘A method, I need to find a method…’

 

Ha Mu-baek pondered with a serious expression.

 

A situation that was becoming increasingly precarious as time passed.

 

Even so, Ha Mu-baek did not panic.

 

Hadn’t he felt in the recent battle with Myo Gu-eung that haste would rather become poison?

 

‘There is… a method!’

 

And finally he found a way.

 

It was also an extremely dangerous method.

 

But at this point, it was the method with the highest possibility of saving all three of them.

 

The moment he thought of it, he put it into action.

 

‘Absorption Technique.’

 

Ha Mu-baek began to absorb through her pulse points.

 

The poison energy that slowly filled Dang Ji-yeon’s interior.

 

Considering the current situation, he wanted to absorb it at maximum speed, but her blood meridians wouldn’t be able to withstand that pace.

 

Slowly and gently.

 

Gradually.

 

He absorbed the poison energy.

 

A slight relief appeared on Dang Ja-cheong’s face.

 

Because he confirmed that the rough and hard aura of the poison energy had softened a little.

 

Thinking he had done well to trust Ha Mu-baek, he put even more effort into the Ten Thousand Streams Return Origin Poison Technique.

 

As a result.

 

He could understand the reason why the poison energy had softened.

 

The poison energy was flowing out somewhere.

 

Just how was it being expelled?

 

Since Dang Ja-cheong had his eyes closed and was pushing his internal energy with full force to resist the poison energy.

 

He couldn’t even imagine that Ha Mu-baek was absorbing Dang Ji-yeon’s poison energy with the Absorption Technique.

 

He merely admired Ha Mu-baek’s outstanding ability and felt grateful.

 

As the poison energy gradually decreased, Dang Ji-yeon’s complexion slowly began to return.

 

When her jade-white skin returned.

 

Crack.

 

The Poison Bead, whose light had been gradually weakening, exhausted its power and lost its glow.

 

“Whew.”

 

Then Dang Ja-cheong removed his hand from Dang Ji-yeon’s Life Gate Acupoint and let out a deep sigh.

 

Immediately after, he entered energy circulation.

 

Now it was time to drive out the poison energy that had entered his own body.

 

It had truly been a precarious moment.

 

If the Poison Bead had shattered just a little earlier, he wouldn’t have been able to eliminate all the poison energy in Dang Ji-yeon’s body.

 

Dang Ji-yeon lost consciousness while still in cross-legged sitting position, perhaps due to the fierce battle inside her body.

 

Regardless of that, Ha Mu-baek continued to examine her interior.

 

Dang Ji-yeon, who had all the poison energy sucked into his body, now had not even a single drop of poison energy remaining.

 

However, from the terrible battle up until now, not only her blood meridians but even her pulse meridians had weakened to their limit.

 

While Ha Mu-baek fought against the poison energy inside his own body.

 

He moved his internal energy to restore not only Dang Ji-yeon’s blood meridians but also her pulse meridians.

 

Dang Ji-yeon regained consciousness at the warm sensation flowing through her entire body.

 

When the poison energy settled in her body had completely disappeared and her blood meridians had recovered to some extent.

 

Ha Mu-baek removed his hand from her pulse point.

 

Then Dang Ji-yeon, who continued operating the Ten Thousand Streams Return to Origin Technique and opened her eyes.

 

The feeling of the moment when Ha Mu-baek removed his hand from her pulse point came to mind.

 

Deep regret.

 

Was it because something warm had disappeared, or was it because Ha Mu-baek’s hand had fallen away?

 

It was a regret she couldn’t pinpoint exactly.

 

When that thought occurred to her, Dang Ji-yeon was startled and blushed.

 

The moment she came to her senses and looked for him to thank Ha Mu-baek.

 

“Ahhh…”

 

She let out a quiet gasp.

 

Because she discovered Ha Mu-baek, whose entire body had turned pitch black.

 

The poison energy that had flowed out of her body.

 

Those things that remained unmoved no matter how much she and grandfather tried to drive them out with their combined internal energy, had moved so obediently.

 

Because there was a new nest for them to move to.

 

Ha Mu-baek.

 

He had absorbed her poison energy with the Absorption Technique.

 

“How, how could…”

 

Tears welled up in Dang Ji-yeon’s eyes.

 

To save her, he had absorbed tremendous poison into himself.

 

It was something no one else would dare attempt.

 

She was restless, but there was nothing she could do.

 

Grandfather was also in energy circulation to remove the poison remaining in himself.

 

All Dang Ji-yeon could do was watch earnestly and hopefully.

 

Ha Mu-baek’s situation wasn’t as serious as it looked from the outside.

 

It was certainly true that he was poisoned by the Ten Thousand Year Poison Essence.

 

But he was fighting the poison energy using internal energy, fire energy, and ice energy.

 

Ha Mu-baek’s blood meridians had four types of energy mixed together, each fighting to expand their own territory.

 

Trickle.

 

Pitch-black blood flowed from the corner of his mouth.

 

Even so, Ha Mu-baek’s interior wasn’t at a serious level yet.

 

Ha Mu-baek chose to contemplate the poison energy’s movements rather than immediately fight against it.

 

Because of this, the poisoning gradually worsened and he even bled.

 

Since it was still bearable.

 

Ha Mu-baek’s body itself, being of Ten Thousand Poisons Immunity constitution, resisted the poison energy.

 

But the poison energy was indeed breaking through that resistance, expanding its influence and poisoning Ha Mu-baek.

 

He raised his internal energy.

 

He protected his already solid blood meridians even more solidly.

 

Then he raised his fire energy.

 

Flames racing through the interior of his blood meridians.

 

The poison energy resisted the fire energy.

 

As expected, it wasn’t easy.

 

Just like in the Southern Barbarian Cave.

 

The poison energy didn’t burn away in the fire energy but resisted and endured.

 

If he raised the fire energy more strongly, it would burn away and disappear, but.

 

This was the limit that Ha Mu-baek’s blood meridians could endure right now.

 

Fire energy and poison energy engaged in a back-and-forth battle of qi.

 

Ha Mu-baek watched the fight as if he had expected it, then.

 

From the opposite side, he raised ice energy and began freezing the poison energy.

 

Though it resisted the ice energy as well.

 

It was already engaged in battle with fire energy.

 

Parts of the poison energy began to freeze little by little, and.

 

That energy began to weaken.

 

Then its resistance to fire energy also weakened, and the poison energy gradually began to burn.

 

Even so, it didn’t completely disappear.

 

Instead, its power gradually diminished.

 

Fire energy at one end and ice energy at the other end.

 

Under the combined attack of the two energies, the poison energy’s power diminished more and more, until.

 

The moment it was cornered with nowhere to go.

 

Fire energy, ice energy, and poison energy became mixed together.

 

And even the internal energy that had been protecting his blood meridians mixed in and swirled around.

 

‘Is this as far as it goes?’

 

Ha Mu-baek thought while contemplating his interior.

 

There was a way to completely annihilate the poison energy.

 

Internal energy, fire energy, and ice energy.

 

Unifying the three energies and detonating them.

 

However.

 

If he did that, even Ha Mu-baek’s blood meridians wouldn’t be able to withstand that power.

 

His own body being unable to withstand his own power.

 

That’s why he couldn’t completely annihilate it inside Ha Mu-baek’s body.

 

‘I’ll contain it.’

 

So he made his decision.

 

He operated the Mugeuk Yeoui Heart Method and Radiance Great Heaven Power.

 

Since it was poison energy that followed a different path from the two internal energy mental methods.

 

He wondered if he could contain it, but.

 

Once Ha Mu-baek thought of a method, he would attempt it.

 

The four energies mixed and swirled as the poison energy was gradually absorbed into Ha Mu-baek’s dantian.

 

No, just as it seemed to be absorbed, it bounced out and was absorbed into the inner core formed by fire energy and ice energy.

 

To be precise, it was trapped.

 

In the very center where the two energies chased each other’s tails in a swirling motion.

 

The poison energy was trapped.

 

Internal energy gently approached from the outside and wrapped around it.

 

When the four types of energy combined, it truly became just like an inner core.

 

Within it, the poison energy literally melted away bit by bit, very gradually, and was absorbed into Ha Mu-baek’s dantian.

 

The dantian and inner core.

 

The two were connected to each other, continuously circulating energy.

 

Around that time.

 

Ha Mu-baek’s complexion completely returned to normal.

 

Ha Mu-baek opened both eyes.

 

At that moment.

 

“Ah… th-thank goodness…”

 

Dang Ji-yeon let out a sigh of relief and collapsed to the ground.

 

Dang Ja-cheong was looking at Ha Mu-baek with a smile covering his entire face.

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