The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 365

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Chapter 365. Isn’t This That Thing?

 

 

 

 

 

“Tahat!”

 

“Euhut.”

 

“Hiyap!”

 

The cadets of the Maengryong Corps were devoted to their training.

 

They had no choice.

 

The instructor watching them was him.

 

Ji Gun-wi.

 

An instructor who was relentlessly thorough.

 

That’s why the cadets gave their all.

 

He was an instructor who would catch them like a ghost if they showed even the slightest bit of leisure in their training, and would personally join them in training.

 

That Jigunwi Instructor suddenly stared at the western sky.

 

And then he looked at Instructor Han Seol-bing who was helping with training on one side.

 

[Please excuse me for a moment, Instructor Han.]

 

[Yes. I understand.]

 

Jigunwi Instructor’s sudden telepathic message.

 

From his attitude that she had observed so far, it seemed like an important matter.

 

Han Seol-bing didn’t ask anything.

 

Upon hearing her response, Ji Gun-wi’s body movement disappeared in an instant.

 

Han Seol-bing took his place.

 

The moment a few cadets’ faces showed brief relief at this change.

 

“There! There! Move forward!”

 

Han Seol-bing also caught them like a ghost.

 

‘Ah, Instructor Han has changed too…’

 

Dang Jin-san thought with a fed-up expression.

 

She wasn’t like this when she was with Instructor Ha, but in the few days she spent with Instructor Ji.

 

Instructor Han had become just as strict as him.

 

 

 

“Huh? What is this?”

 

He left Muchang and climbed to the peak of a nearby mountain to look west.

 

More precisely, in the direction where Sichuan was located.

 

Wi Ji-gun’s complexion was rigidly hardened.

 

Even when the Blood Cult and Demon Cult were rampant and All Under Heaven was in chaos.

 

Wi Ji-gun had never had such a serious expression.

 

The first time.

 

When Wi Ji-gun looked toward Sichuan Province from the Great Training Ground.

 

That moment was.

 

The exact point when Myo Gu-eung shot the Poison Steel Poison Spear at Ha Mu-baek.

 

At that time.

 

The only mind technique he hadn’t taught Ha Mu-baek reacted.

 

And that mind technique was still reacting.

 

This was called a mind technique, but it wasn’t a mind technique for learning internal energy.

 

A mind technique for sensing something.

 

When Wi Ji-gun’s master passed this on to him.

 

His master had said this.

 

It was a mind technique that had never reacted in his lifetime.

 

However, it was something that must be learned to continue the lineage of the Mugeuk Sword Sect.

 

There was one reason he couldn’t pass this mind technique to Ha Mu-baek.

 

The smell of blood was too thick.

 

When he first went out into the world, he thought it wasn’t the right time, and when he returned, the smell of blood was too thick.

 

He had now considerably removed the smell of blood and was planning to visit the sect soon to pass it on to Ha Mu-baek.

 

But it reacted at this moment.

 

‘That guy was heading to the Sichuan Tang Family… could it be…’

 

He was worried it might be connected to his disciple.

 

“The fire of Manhwang has been lit…”

 

Wi Ji-gun muttered in a heavy tone.

 

 

 

***

 

 

 

“The fire of Manhwang has been lit.”

 

Tianshan Mountain Range.

 

At the peak of the highest and most treacherous mountain even there.

 

In this place where blizzards raged all year round, there was a small thatched hut.

 

On land where one would wonder if people could actually live.

 

Inside that thatched hut.

 

In that dark place, there were eight candles.

 

Just a moment ago.

 

One of them had spontaneously caught fire.

 

The words muttered by the old man sitting alone in the thatched hut as he saw that flame.

 

His eyes were filled with ecstasy.

 

How long had the wait been.

 

He had thought that perhaps even in his generation, he wouldn’t see even one of the eight candles catch fire.

 

But it had caught fire.

 

The flickering flame of the candle.

 

“The power that created this world. Manhwang. Finally trying to awaken from its long slumber. Kekeke.”

 

The old man let out a laugh.

 

“Seven more fires are needed until the completion of Manhwang… I wonder how many will be lit during my lifetime…”

 

The old man stared at the candles that still hadn’t caught fire.

 

“It seems the Stone Family bastards have turned All Under Heaven upside down quite well.”

 

It was the fire of Manhwang he had yearned for and awaited.

 

Something that had shown no reaction despite waiting for hundreds of years.

 

Finally, one of them had lit up.

 

The old man straightened his hunched body and stood up from his seat.

 

“Now it’s time for us to go out into the world. First, I should send a young one to survey the situation.”

 

He opened the door of the thatched hut.

 

A fierce blizzard was raging without rest.

 

However.

 

The area around the thatched hut was utterly quiet.

 

A truly strange sight.

 

The old man lightly moved his steps and set foot into the blizzard.

 

The places where he walked became quiet as if by magic.

 

It looked as if the blizzard was avoiding him.

 

When he came down a little from the peak.

 

Nine men appeared and prostrated themselves before him.

 

The Old Man carefully examined them.

 

“Yes. You have been diligently training.”

 

He nodded with satisfaction.

 

“Ten Demon, Yuan Family.”

 

“Yes. Your Supremacy.”

 

The one whose name was called by the Old Man bowed even deeper.

 

“You need to go out for a while. To see how All Under Heaven is now. What has become of those Eight Demon Seok family bastards.”

 

“I obey your command!”

 

“And. The Fire of Ten Thousand Emperors has been lit.”

 

“Gasp!”

 

“How can that be!”

 

At the Old Man’s following words, several unconsciously let out exclamations of shock.

 

As if understanding their feelings well, the Old Man did not separately rebuke them.

 

“On your way, if you can find the one who lit the Fire of Ten Thousand Emperors, try to find them.”

 

“I obey your command!”

 

The one called Yuan Family.

 

Won Pyeong-sam.

 

Hearing his cry, the Old Man turned his body again and headed toward the Thatched Cottage.

 

“Keke keke.”

 

Only his seemingly pleased laughter echoed low amidst the snowstorm.

 

 

 

***

 

 

 

“How much time has passed?”

 

Ha Mu-baek asked with a calm face.

 

“Two hours? Three hours? About that much.”

 

Compared to the time at Ice Heaven Palace, it was a short time.

 

It was probably because it was only part of Poison Well’s Toxic Energy.

 

“Are you alright?”

 

Dang Ja-cheong asked while examining Ha Mu-baek.

 

“Fortunately, I handled it well.”

 

“Th-thank you.”

 

Dang Ji-yeon bowed deeply with a reddened face, expressing her gratitude.

 

“I only kept my promise with the Family Head, so please don’t worry about it.”

 

At his calm answer.

 

Dang Ji-yeon seemed to show a somewhat disappointed expression, but quickly composed herself.

 

“How did it go?”

 

Having confirmed Ha Mu-baek’s safety, he naturally became curious about Myo Gu-eung.

 

Ha Mu-baek’s expression hardened slightly.

 

“I could not confirm his final end.”

 

“Huh.”

 

A low exclamation flowed out.

 

Ha Mu-baek told them about the final battle with Myo Gu-eung.

 

“He fell down the cliff having lost both arms and one leg…”

 

“Wouldn’t he die from that much?”

 

To Dang Ji-yeon, surviving a fall into the river water below the cliff in that condition was completely unimaginable.

 

“Let’s go take a look at that place for now.”

 

To think that the end of such a desperate escape was a cliff.

 

Just where on earth had Myo Gu-eung been heading?

 

Dang Ja-cheong and Dang Ji-yeon who arrived at the place where the final battle was fought widened their eyes.

 

Because ruins as if an earthquake had occurred greeted them.

 

That this was the result of humans fighting humans.

 

That ruins like a natural disaster could be created.

 

Just where is the end of this man’s abilities?

 

Dang Ja-cheong had such thoughts.

 

At the same time.

 

He was reminded once again that asking Ha Mu-baek had truly been an exquisite move.

 

If it hadn’t been for him.

 

What kind of disaster would have befallen Sichuan Province.

 

Dang Ji-yeon looked down from the edge of the cliff.

 

It was a dizzying height that made one feel faint just looking at it.

 

Kwarrrrung.

 

The sound of fierce rapids could be heard from that height.

 

This.

 

This isn’t just river water.

 

These are rapids among rapids.

 

He fell into that place?

 

Then even falling with an intact body would mean certain death.

 

Dang Ji-yeon shook her head back and forth.

 

That terrifying poison master.

 

He must surely be dead.

 

“Hm?”

 

Something caught Dang Ji-yeon’s eye as she was examining below.

 

“Gr-Grandfather. Instructor Ha. Please come over here!”

 

Dang Ji-yeon called the two men.

 

“What’s the matter? Yeon-ah.”

 

Dang Ja-cheong came over and asked.

 

“Over there. I think I see something over there?”

 

“Hm?”

 

Dang Ja-cheong concentrated his Eye Power.

 

Though it was called a sheer cliff, it couldn’t be a smooth cliff like cut blue stone.

 

Among the jagged strange rocks and trees with tenacious vitality here and there.

 

The direction of Dang Ji-yeon’s pointing finger.

 

Something definitely seemed visible there.

 

“Instructor Ha. How does it look to your eyes?”

 

Dang Ja-cheong turned to look at Ha Mu-baek.

 

“Hmm.”

 

Ha Mu-baek concentrated his Eye Power.

 

“It would be faster to go down and take a look.”

 

“Huh? Wait, what?”

 

Before the startled Dang Ji-yeon could stop him.

 

Ha Mu-baek leaped down.

 

The place that caught Dang Ji-yeon’s eye, about halfway down the dizzying cliff.

 

Ha Mu-baek calmly stepped on the air and slowly descended.

 

As if there were stairs.

 

The sight of him performing Air Walking as if it were nothing.

 

Ha Mu-baek arrived at the place Dang Ji-yeon had pointed to.

 

That place was in the middle of the cliff.

 

It was a fairly wide space that jutted out.

 

Large enough for three or four people to lie down.

 

But that wasn’t the important thing.

 

There was a cave right before Ha Mu-baek’s eyes.

 

A cave that seemed to have been touched by human hands.

 

Ha Mu-baek kicked off the cliff and soared upward.

 

“What was it?”

 

“There was a cave.”

 

“Ah.”

 

At Ha Mu-baek’s answer, Dang Ji-yeon let out a low exclamation.

 

She hadn’t known it was a cave.

 

“But.”

 

Ha Mu-baek paused for a moment.

 

“There are traces of human hands having touched it.”

 

At his following words, Dang Ja-cheong and Dang Ji-yeon showed surprised expressions.

 

“Then was Myo Gu-eung’s destination?”

 

Dang Ja-cheong muttered suspiciously, but Ha Mu-baek shook his head.

 

“It wasn’t. He was simply desperate to escape. It wasn’t movement with a predetermined destination. He probably didn’t know either.”

 

At Ha Mu-baek’s words.

 

Dang Ji-yeon’s eyes lit up.

 

“Then. Isn’t this that thing? A fateful encounter?”

 

Something that never failed to appear in the popular heroic tales circulating in the marketplace.

 

It was a fateful encounter somewhere on a cliff.

 

Dang Ji-yeon’s eyes were shining as if expecting such a thing.

 

“Did you examine it?”

 

Dang Ja-cheong asked.

 

“I only looked roughly from the entrance. It was quite deep. It seems like human hands touched a natural cave.”

 

Perhaps forgetting the life-and-death situation that had occurred today.

 

Dang Ji-yeon’s eyes were full of anticipation and curiosity.

 

“Then how about we take a look?”

 

Dang Ja-cheong asked cautiously.

 

Though he was called the Poison Emperor.

 

He was one grandfather who cherished his granddaughter.

 

“It hasn’t been long since you overcame a life-threatening crisis, will you be alright?”

 

Ha Mu-baek’s question was directed at Dang Ji-yeon.

 

“I recovered somewhat while Instructor was absorbed in energy circulation to drive out the poison energy. Don’t worry.”

 

The best method would be to go in alone first to check.

 

But it seemed Dang Ji-yeon wouldn’t allow that.

 

Of course, there was no reason he needed her permission to move.

 

“Sigh. Understood. Let’s take a brief look. If it seems dangerous, we’ll come back out.”

 

At Ha Mu-baek’s words as if he couldn’t win, Dang Ja-cheong nodded.

 

“Understood. If there are signs of danger, we’ll do so.”

 

He answered with a face full of belief that there would be no dangerous incidents as long as Ha Mu-baek was with them.

 

Ha Mu-baek took out four daggers from his chest.

 

These were things he occasionally carried in preparation for possible uses.

 

“Do you happen to have any daggers? Four won’t seem to be enough.”

 

“Here they are.”

 

“Here.”

 

Two daggers each came out from Dang Ja-cheong and Dang Ji-yeon’s chests.

 

“Let’s go.”

 

With those words, Ha Mu-baek descended below the cliff again using Air Walking.

 

Dang Ja-cheong and Dang Ji-yeon watched him with troubled faces.

 

Since it was an impossible technique for those two.

 

“You can step on them and come down.”

 

Then Ha Mu-baek’s voice was heard from below the cliff.

 

Looking down, eight daggers were already embedded in the cliff forming stairs.

 

As the two carefully stepped on the daggers and descended.

 

The rearmost dagger smoothly moved by itself to descend to the very bottom, embedding itself in the next place to step.

 

Qi Control Sword.

 

Ha Mu-baek was currently descending the cliff using Air Walking.

 

While simultaneously controlling eight daggers with Qi Control Sword.

 

Dang Ja-cheong glanced at Ha Mu-baek with a pale face.

 

Just what level must one reach for such divine skill to be possible?

 

And what kind of monster had Myo Gu-eung become to engage in fierce attack and defense with such a Ha Mu-baek, even if briefly?

 

Lost in such thoughts as he moved his steps.

 

Before long, he found himself stepping foot in the place Dang Ji-yeon had discovered.

 

“Indeed…”

 

The cave entrance with its straight and sharp cross-section.

 

Could only be seen as having been touched by human hands.

 

Since it would never naturally become like that.

 

However, the interior was different.

 

For a few steps, it was clearly an artificially made cave.

 

But the inner area was a naturally formed cave.

 

Since stalactites, stalagmites, and stone pillars were visible.

 

“It was cut with sword aura in One Sword.”

 

Ha Mu-baek said while looking at the traces.

 

“And internal energy was infused into the cut area. So it could withstand weathering.”

 

At Ha Mu-baek’s words, Dang Ja-cheong tilted his head.

 

“Is such a thing possible?”

 

“It means someone that strong touched this place.”

 

At that answer, Dang Ji-yeon.

 

Gulp.

 

Swallowed dry saliva.

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