The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 371
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Chapter 371. What’s the Purpose?
After a long while.
Myo Gu-eung opened his eyes.
His two eyes were deeply sunken.
Only now had proper reason returned to him.
He slowly reviewed the situation from his final clash with Ha Mu-baek until now.
“Who are you? Narak.”
With only one leg remaining above the knee and one intact leg, he barely managed to sit and ask.
The bleeding had already stopped.
The terrible burning pain had now diminished to a bearable level.
His arms, cleanly severed at both shoulders.
He was in a state where proper movement itself was impossible.
[I am the will of Manhwang.]
“What exactly is that?”
Myo Gu-eung asked calmly.
Narak explained about himself in relatively great detail.
Throughout hearing that story, Myo Gu-eung’s face changed in truly various ways.
He was more shocked than when he had discovered the Ten Thousand Year Poison Well.
He had thought he was completely dead, but a new power had awakened.
And it was the qi energy that had been hidden within Man Hwang-tal-baek Myeong-dok-gong.
[But your body has become complete trash.]
“….”
Myo Gu-eung closed his mouth.
[Do you want revenge?]
Narak’s question.
Myo Gu-eung’s eyes flashed brightly.
“That goes without saying.”
[If you do as I command, it will certainly be possible. Manhwang is the world itself.]
“With this body?”
Myo Gu-eung muttered in a self-deprecating voice.
It was natural.
He couldn’t even walk right now, and eating food was also impossible.
[It’s because you were buried only in poison arts and didn’t properly cultivate martial arts. Once you gained power, you should have properly refined it. You were hasty and reckless.]
Narak had already heard Myo Gu-eung’s circumstances.
“….”
Myo Gu-eung remained silent.
When he had absorbed the poison of the Ten Thousand Year Poison Well.
He had truly believed there would be no one in all under heaven who could match him.
He couldn’t imagine that a human who could withstand the poison of the Ten Thousand Year Poison Well would exist.
He had thought he could melt everyone with a handful of poison water in an instant.
Until he met that monster.
Certainly poisoned, but resisting and enduring the toxicity, pressing him hard.
The monster who had ultimately made him into this state.
[I will give you power. I can also restore your arms and legs. So do as I command.]
At Narak’s words, Myo Gu-eung showed an expression of disbelief, but he had no choice.
[First, let’s find a quiet place.]
And when he operated the qi energy in his body as Narak instructed, his body gently floated up.
He had used Void Grasping on his own body.
Thus, Myo Gu-eung slowly moved to find a small cave-like place that was deserted and quiet.
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Dang Ja-cheong led the way into Cheondok Valley.
The returned Gate Guards were guarding the entrance.
Having already received word from Yeo Hong-gi, when Dang Ja-cheong revealed his name, he was immediately guided to the Valley Master’s Hall.
The hall where Ha Mu-baek had smashed the ground.
That place had been roughly repaired.
When they went up to the top floor, Yeo Hong-gi was waiting.
“Have you arrived? Elder.”
Yeo Hong-gi greeted the three people with a calm expression.
Whether he had received word, tea was prepared on the tea table.
Ha Mu-baek looked at Yeo Hong-gi with a sharp face.
Even though Yeo Hong-gi felt such a gaze, he maintained a composed expression.
“You were waiting.”
Dang Ja-cheong said as he took a seat.
“Yes. Since Sa-baek left like that. How did it go?”
The answer from Yeo Hong-gi, who sat down last.
Dang Ja-cheong looked at Ha Mu-baek.
Ha Mu-baek looked at Yeo Hong-gi.
He raised his hand and gathered internal energy at his fingertips.
Then he drew the pattern he had seen on the tea table.
A round circle. It seemed to represent the world.
And cracks. The world being split.
Eight pieces were the number Manhwang had been divided into.
Even the form representing intense light in the center.
He drew it all.
It was the pattern the three people had seen in the cave.
And the pattern Dang Ji-yeon said she had once seen at the Valley Master’s quarters in Cheondok Valley during a gathering in Sichuan Province.
“How do you know this… It’s a pattern we no longer use.”
Yeo Hong-gi looked at Ha Mu-baek as if surprised.
“What kind of pattern is this?”
Ha Mu-baek asked.
“It’s a pattern symbolizing the Valley Master’s Ultimate Art. More precisely, one symbolizing Man Hwang-tal-baek Myeong-dok-gong. Since the Valley Master’s Ultimate Art represents the Valley Master, Master used it. But I didn’t use it for very long. It’s now a discontinued martial art in the valley.”
That was why.
The reason Dang Ji-yeon only remembered seeing it once.
Ha Mu-baek nodded lightly.
From Yeo Hong-gi’s answer, he could guess the identity of the pattern.
This was not Cheondok Valley’s pattern.
It was Manhwang’s pattern.
“How do you know this?”
Yeo Hong-gi asked again, but Ha Mu-baek did not answer.
Since Ha Mu-baek did not answer, Dang Ja-cheong and Dang Ji-yeon also kept their mouths shut.
“Are you curious about what happened to Myo Gu-eung?”
Ha Mu-baek’s question.
Even though Yeo Hong-gi didn’t receive an answer to the question he had asked.
Since Ha Mu-baek had asked something he was even more curious about, he had no choice but to nod his head.
He hoped that Ha Mu-baek had met his end at the hands of that monster.
Though he was a Sa-baek of the sect.
Though he was a Sa-baek who had been unjustly betrayed by the sect.
To Yeo Hong-gi, the current Cheondok Valley and its disciples and dependents were more important.
“I don’t know.”
“What do you mean…?”
Yeo Hong-gi reflexively asked back at Ha Mu-baek’s short answer.
“I cut off both his arms and his left leg too… but before I could take his life, he fell off the cliff. There were rapids flowing below.”
Yeo Hong-gi looked in the direction where Ha Mu-baek had disappeared.
He seemed to know which place he was referring to.
“Angry Dragon Rapids…”
Yeo Hong-gi’s murmur.
Ha Mu-baek, who finally learned the name of that place, nodded slightly.
The rapids of an angry dragon.
It was truly a fitting name.
The rapids were that fierce and violent.
“I don’t know whether he’s alive or dead.”
At Ha Mu-baek’s words, Yeo Hong-gi had no choice but to agree.
He was probably dead nine times out of ten.
But this was a Sa-baek who had gained the power of the Ten Thousand Year Poison Essence.
There was a slim possibility he might still be alive.
His brow furrowed involuntarily.
If he was alive, Sa-baek would come looking for Cheondok Valley again.
Unlike this time, there would be no way to know when he might appear then.
“Should I be hoping that he has passed away…?”
Yeo Hong-gi muttered quietly.
“How cruel. It seemed like Sa-baek had an unjust story.”
Ha Mu-baek interjected.
“Since it’s an irreconcilable grudge, thinking of the lives of the many disciples in the valley. Even if it’s cruel, I have no choice but to wish for Sa-baek’s death. Aren’t those words you shouldn’t be hearing from the person who made Sa-baek into that state?”
Yeo Hong-gi’s sharp eyes turned toward Ha Mu-baek.
Ha Mu-baek chuckled.
“What was that thing?”
Yeo Hong-gi understood the meaning of Ha Mu-baek’s question well.
That’s why.
He didn’t answer immediately.
He picked up the tea cup in front of him and moistened his mouth.
Yeo Hong-gi had thought that if Ha Mu-baek returned, he would definitely ask about that existence.
To him, it was as important as Sa-baek’s life or death.
That’s why he had pondered over and over again.
Ha Mu-baek would surely ask about the Purple Light Acid Poison, so what should he do.
He had reached his own conclusion.
He had already reported the results to Yeon Ja-gyeong.
Since Yeon Ja-gyeong had used him as a kind of sacrificial piece, a test piece in this incident.
He could take a corresponding attitude.
Though he had some faith in Ha Mu-baek’s character, if he became enraged and lost his mind, that wouldn’t matter either.
He thought he would have to give him the answer he wanted to hear.
Ha Mu-baek silently looked at Yeo Hong-gi.
Yeo Hong-gi, who had swallowed the tea, stared intently at Ha Mu-baek.
“Can you promise to keep this secret?”
“Why bother?”
“Since my safety depends on it…”
“Your safety might be in immediate danger, you know?”
At Ha Mu-baek’s words, Yeo Hong-gi chuckled.
“On what grounds?”
This was the reason he could face Ha Mu-baek with confidence.
Justification.
Though Ha Mu-baek was a bomb-like person who acted recklessly.
At least he respected justification.
He was a martial artist of the righteous faction.
“Didn’t you stab me in the back while I was fighting the enemy?”
Ha Mu-baek’s question, claiming he had justification.
“I was aiming for Sa-baek.”
Yeo Hong-gi’s answer that it was an accident.
“Was that really the case?”
“It was indeed.”
Yeo Hong-gi answered without backing down.
Since he couldn’t see into his mind.
There was no way to find out what his intention had been.
If Yeo Hong-gi insisted to the end.
In the end, there would be no justification.
Ha Mu-baek glared at him with killing intent.
Even while breaking out in cold sweat, Yeo Hong-gi didn’t budge.
In the end, it was Ha Mu-baek who stepped back.
“I promise.”
“I also ask for a promise to guarantee my safety.”
“Only for this matter.”
Ha Mu-baek accepted while drawing a line.
It meant that if he did anything foolish next time, he wouldn’t be forgiven then.
“I understand. Then sir, could you please step aside for a moment?”
Yeo Hong-gi looked at Dang Ja-cheong and requested.
Dang Ja-cheong led Dang Ji-yeon and went outside the door.
A waiting maid guided them to another room.
Only the two remained.
Ha Mu-baek deployed an energy barrier.
Since he had promised to keep the secret, he took appropriate measures.
“It’s an internal energy scattering poison called Purple Light Acid Poison.”
Since Ha Mu-baek was watching, Yeo Hong-gi opened his mouth.
“Purple Light Acid Poison…”
Ha Mu-baek muttered that name.
“It’s an internal energy scattering poison I created with all my heart and soul.”
“What was the purpose?”
Ha Mu-baek asked indifferently.
“It was Family Head Yeon’s request.”
“Yeon Ja-gyeong?”
“That’s right.”
Though it was a story he had already heard, Ha Mu-baek confirmed once more.
“Why did he request it and support you?”
The most important question.
Yeo Hong-gi stared intently at Ha Mu-baek.
It was because of this answer that he had secured a promise from Ha Mu-baek.
“It was to obtain the Internal Energy Scattering Poison that could poison you.”
“….”
Ha Mu-baek remained silent.
Yeo Hong-gi was extremely tense.
If Ha Mu-baek lost his mind here and exploded in rage.
Regardless of any promise, his life would be forfeit.
However, Ha Mu-baek was as calm as the gentle waves of a tranquil lake.
The reason was simple.
He had already suspected it.
Because he knew what kind of person that old man Yeon Ja-gyeong was.
Because he knew that old man’s ambitions.
“How did you create it? An Internal Energy Scattering Poison that neutralizes Ten Thousand Poisons Immunity. No, you even poisoned Myo Gu-eung, who had absorbed the Ten Thousand Year Poison Essence.”
“White Flame Purple Light Grass.”
Ha Mu-baek flinched at the answer that came back.
It was a familiar name.
There was no way he wouldn’t know it.
That name.
It was given by the Hocheon Corps.
Sanwol Demon Forest.
Among it, it was grass that grew in places where jiangshi corpses piled up and corpse poison accumulated.
The Hocheon Corps had ventured deepest into Sanwol Demon Forest and defeated the most jiangshi.
Naturally.
They had no choice but to see it first.
A pure white beautiful flower that was hard to believe bloomed in places with jiangshi corpse poison.
At night, it emitted a purple light.
That’s why they named it White Flame Purple Light Grass.
It was reported to the Jeongcheon Alliance, and they researched its uses.
But despite its strange ecology, it should have been determined to be nothing more than ordinary weeds, right?
“That weed?”
That’s why Ha Mu-baek had no choice but to ask.
“Do you know of it?”
“That name. I’m the one who gave it.”
This time it was Yeo Hong-gi who flinched.
It was a fact he hadn’t known.
“I didn’t know that. Hmm. That could have been the case….”
Former Hocheon Corps Leader Ha Mu-baek.
Yeo Hong-gi nodded while recalling the Hocheon Corps’ activities during the Murim War.
“It was certainly just a weed. But when I used a special method, the sangong effect appeared.”
Yeo Hong-gi only spoke up to that point.
Because that was his secret technique.
“Is there any left?”
At Ha Mu-baek’s question, Yeo Hong-gi shook his head.
At that time, he too was desperate.
So he threw everything he had without thinking of the consequences.
Because he didn’t know whether it would work on Sa-baek, who had absorbed the Ten Thousand Year Poison Essence.
Ha Mu-baek had heard all the necessary information.
Terrifying killing intent rose from his body.
Under the killing intent that constricted his entire body, Yeo Hong-gi broke out in cold sweat.
His breath was choked off by the profound terror as if he were being thrown into a bottomless pit.
“Su, surely you made a pr, promise….”
Yeo Hong-gi barely managed to speak.
Ha Mu-baek looked at him with sharp eyes.
“Promise… Yes, promise. I made one. Certainly. That’s why it ends at this level.”
The moment he finished speaking.
The killing intent that had been constricting Yeo Hong-gi’s entire body disappeared like melting snow.
It really happened in an instant.
“There won’t be a next time. When that happens, I’ll calculate double for this incident as well.”
Ha Mu-baek rose from his seat, flung open the door, and disappeared.
Yeo Hong-gi could only stare blankly at that spot with a face pale as a sheet.
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