The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 372

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Chapter 372. That’s Not All…

 

 

 

 

 

As he left the hall, Dang Ja-cheong and Dang Ji-yeon were waiting.

 

“I’ve arranged for one of the separate buildings in the Reception Hall. Let’s go there for now.”

 

At Dang Ja-cheong’s words, Ha Mu-baek followed behind him.

 

The three settled in the tea room of the separate building.

 

“Did the conversation end well?”

 

Dang Ja-cheong asked.

 

“Yes. I obtained everything I wanted.”

 

“Is he unharmed?”

 

Dang Ja-cheong asked while looking up at the top floor of the hall.

 

“I only gave him a slight warning.”

 

Meaning he hadn’t laid a hand on him.

 

“Hmm. I thought you’d at least cut off an arm or so?”

 

“As Valley Master Yeo said, there was no justification.”

 

Dang Ja-cheong nodded at Ha Mu-baek’s answer.

 

“So what will you do now?”

 

He asked about future plans.

 

“I should return to Gyoryong Hall. Actually, I never expected this journey to last so long.”

 

That was true.

 

He had only come to request the Blood Poison Pill.

 

But he had even traveled to Namman.

 

On top of that, there was even a battle with Myo Gu-eung, that tremendous poison master.

 

Dang Ja-cheong’s gaze turned toward the direction of Namman.

 

“Come to think of it, both the Jeongcheon Alliance and Sahae Alliance ended rather anticlimactically.”

 

The Jeongcheon Alliance had investigated the disturbance in Namman through the Tang Family.

 

The Sahae Alliance had investigated the disturbance in Namman through Poison Night Cave.

 

The Yeon Family Head had unilaterally mobilized Cheondok Valley.

 

The three groups had investigated different villages, but they had roughly grasped each other’s movements.

 

Poison Night Cave must also be suffering from that terrible poison.

 

But the culprit had disappeared like this and the matter was resolved.

 

Of course, he wasn’t completely dead.

 

Ha Mu-baek shrugged his shoulders.

 

Their circumstances were their own.

 

“So you’re planning to leave here?”

 

Just as he was about to nod at Dang Ja-cheong’s question.

 

He recalled one fact he had momentarily forgotten.

 

“The Blood Poison Orb is…?”

 

At Ha Mu-baek’s question, Dang Ji-yeon took out an orb from her bosom.

 

It was just an ordinary, common orb with a murky light.

 

The Blood Poison Orb that had resisted Myo Gu-eung’s poison that invaded Dang Ji-yeon’s body until the very end, exhausting its effectiveness.

 

Now its ability had completely disappeared, becoming just another common orb you could see anywhere.

 

Its brilliant light had long since vanished.

 

Ha Mu-baek looked at the Blood Poison Orb with regretful eyes.

 

Though it had used up all its ability protecting Dang Ji-yeon.

 

Hadn’t Ha Mu-baek himself also benefited from the Blood Poison Orb?

 

When he lost his internal energy due to the Purple Light Acid Poison that Yeo Hong-gi had spread.

 

He had been struck by the Formless Poison that flowed from Myo Gu-eung’s body.

 

At that time.

 

Hadn’t he escaped from the poisoning with the help of the Blood Poison Orb and Dang Ja-cheong?

 

He owed a debt to the Tang Family’s Blood Poison Orb.

 

Because of that.

 

Seeing the Blood Poison Orb that had lost its light.

 

His regret only grew greater.

 

But there would be no way to restore the Blood Poison Orb that had already exhausted its effectiveness.

 

“It’s a regrettable matter… when it was a treasure of the Tang Family…”

 

He could only say so in a heavy voice.

 

“It’s just an external object after all. Thanks to it, we saved Yeon-ah’s life, so that’s enough. The Family Head entrusted it to Yeon-ah for that purpose.”

 

When Dang Ja-cheong spoke with a detached expression, Dang Ji-yeon hung her head low.

 

If only she hadn’t stubbornly insisted on following along, this wouldn’t have happened.

 

She thought of herself as a sinner.

 

Ha Mu-baek stared intently at the Blood Poison Orb.

 

While pondering if there was any method.

 

A thought suddenly occurred to him.

 

‘Could it work?’

 

Since there would be no loss even if he tried and failed.

 

Ha Mu-baek moved the energy of his inner core.

 

The poison energy and small seed of Manhwang positioned at the center of ice energy and fire energy.

 

Following Ha Mu-baek’s will, it began moving toward his fingertips.

 

“May I take a look at it for a moment?”

 

At Ha Mu-baek’s request, Dang Ji-yeon handed him the Blood Poison Orb.

 

Since it was now just an object with no more value than an ordinary orb.

 

He tried to push the seed that had reached his fingertips holding the Blood Poison Orb directly into the orb.

 

But the seed refused to leave Ha Mu-baek’s body.

 

Even when he concentrated for a moment and tried to push it in, it remained immovable.

 

Upon careful examination.

 

It was because it was connected to his inner core.

 

‘Then.’

 

He circulated his internal energy and cut off part of the seed.

 

The separated part of the seed tried to return to its original body.

 

But before that.

 

He surrounded it with internal energy and pushed it out along with the internal energy.

 

Then the seed of Manhwang emerged from his fingertips.

 

Perhaps because it was surrounded by Ha Mu-baek’s internal energy, it smoothly seeped into the Blood Poison Orb as if that place had always been its rightful position.

 

And.

 

Slowly.

 

Slowly.

 

The Blood Poison Orb began to emit light.

 

“Huh?”

 

“Ah? Aah…”

 

The two people were startled by the sudden situation.

 

It had clearly been an orb that lost its light and became murky.

 

But after Ha Mu-baek held it, it suddenly began emitting light.

 

“What on earth is happening?”

 

“What on earth is going on?”

 

Dang Ja-cheong asked in a startled, urgent voice.

 

“I tried infusing the energy I obtained this time, just in case.”

 

“You said you gained nothing… No, you can’t put the realm of All Poisons Immunity into the Poison Repelling Bead, so what exactly…?”

 

Dang Ja-cheong muttered as if he couldn’t understand.

 

“The Poison Well’s Toxic Energy I absorbed from Miss Dang’s body and the remnants of Manhwang energy that Go Hu-rak possessed met and became a small seed of mysterious energy. I thought it was trivial, so I didn’t mention it in detail. I tried putting it into the Poison Repelling Bead just in case. Since it had become nothing, I thought it wouldn’t matter if it failed.”

 

Dang Ji-yeon looked at Ha Mu-baek with strange eyes.

 

He said he gained nothing.

 

Yet he achieved All Poisons Immunity.

 

And part of the Poison Well’s Toxic Energy and part of Manhwang energy combined and remained in his body?

 

In the size of a small seed?

 

Though he called it small, how could that possibly be considered trivial!

 

She tried to say something.

 

But her mouth wouldn’t open.

 

She had no choice, because Ha Mu-baek was now using that energy on the Tang Family’s Poison Repelling Bead.

 

Trying to revive what was no longer a treasure or anything, just an ordinary bead.

 

She could only watch the Poison Repelling Bead.

 

It was gradually emitting light, but it was different from before.

 

If the Poison Repelling Bead had once shone brilliantly in five colors.

 

Now it was mysteriously glowing with a jade-green light.

 

More precisely, it had been dyed green, but mixed with the Poison Repelling Bead’s original color and material to become jade-colored.

 

Green jade.

 

Though she had never seen it, Dang Ji-yeon thought even Shaolin’s Green Jade Buddha Palm wouldn’t be more mysterious than this.

 

“It’s similar to a luminous pearl yet different. Hmm. Since the color has changed, perhaps it’s gained abilities other than poison repelling?”

 

Watching the increasingly bright and intense light, Dang Ja-cheong muttered his thoughts.

 

Ha Mu-baek felt that the internal energy and seed he had infused had completely settled within the bead that was once the Poison Repelling Bead.

 

He then offered it to Dang Ja-cheong.

 

“Here it is.”

 

Dang Ja-cheong carefully received the bead from Ha Mu-baek and circulated his internal energy to examine the bead that could no longer be called a Poison Repelling Bead.

 

“Hmm.”

 

Dang Ja-cheong concentrated fully as he examined the bead.

 

He soon sat cross-legged in his chair and closed both eyes.

 

Holding the bead in his palm.

 

After one hour passed.

 

Dang Ja-cheong opened both eyes.

 

With a face filled with shock.

 

Dang Ja-cheong trembled all over with an expression of utter disbelief.

 

“You… what exactly have you created?”

 

“Is there some problem? I didn’t examine it closely either.”

 

He had handed it to Dang Ja-cheong the moment he felt it was complete.

 

“The Poison Repelling Bead… the Poison Repelling Bead has returned… but this is…”

 

Dang Ja-cheong couldn’t properly continue his words.

 

“Grandfather. You said the Poison Repelling Bead has returned?”

 

Dang Ji-yeon asked with a face full of curiosity.

 

“Perhaps because Instructor Ha’s energy dwells within it… the Poison Repelling Bead’s abilities have increased even more.”

 

“What?”

 

“All Poisons Immunity.”

 

“What?!?”

 

“I believe that’s likely. The Poison Repelling Bead was originally a treasure of Ten Thousand Poisons Immunity, but this seems to be a treasure of All Poisons Immunity. I’ll need to confirm it, but…”

 

“That, that’s…”

 

Dang Ji-yeon muttered with a dazed expression, then turned her gaze to Ha Mu-baek.

 

Her eyes held an interrogation that wasn’t quite an interrogation, asking what kind of energy he had been carrying in his body.

 

“Is that so? How surprising. That seed showed no reaction to my energy.”

 

That’s why he was contemplating trying other methods when he saw the depleted Poison Repelling Bead and thought of this.

 

“That’s not all…”

 

However, Dang Ja-cheong’s surprise wasn’t over.

 

“Then…?”

 

“When I held this and circulated my energy.”

 

Dang Ja-cheong had sat cross-legged earlier to circulate his energy.

 

“I felt my resistance to poison slightly increase, though minutely. If done consistently, I might be able to step into a realm beyond Ten Thousand Poisons Immunity.”

 

Dang Ji-yeon looked at Ha Mu-baek again with trembling eyes.

 

You.

 

What exactly have you created!

 

That was her interrogation.

 

This time.

 

“Huh…”

 

Even Ha Mu-baek himself seemed unable to believe it as he let out an exclamation.

 

“It seems to be the result of Manhwang and the Poison Well’s Toxic Energy reacting, hmm.”

 

“I think the Poison Repelling Bead’s own material also had an influence.”

 

Ha Mu-baek added his thoughts.

 

“Even so, what kind of energy is this Manhwang? You said you only put in part of the seed, yet such a miraculous treasure. Just how powerful is that seed?”

 

Ha Mu-baek couldn’t answer Dang Ja-cheong’s question.

 

Even he didn’t know at this point.

 

“In any case, it’s fortunate. Since it’s become an even more excellent treasure. I feel like I’ve repaid my debt and lifted a burden from my heart.”

 

Ha Mu-baek smiled slightly.

 

Then he rose from his seat.

 

“Are you leaving?”

 

Dang Ji-yeon noticed his intention and asked.

 

“Yes. Now that I’ve resolved what was troubling my heart, I really must go.”

 

“Thank you, thank you. Not only did you save mine and Yeon-ah’s lives, but you’ve given such a treasure to the Tang Family.”

 

“It was originally the Tang Family’s possession. Thanks to it, I was able to escape from poisoning. That’s how I could face that man, Myo Gu-eung. So please don’t worry about it.”

 

Ha Mu-baek bowed in greeting.

 

Both Dang Ja-cheong and Dang Ji-yeon stood and offered cupped fist salutes as farewell to Ha Mu-baek.

 

Thus Ha Mu-baek left Cheondok Valley, left Sichuan Province, and headed back toward Muchang where Gyoryong Hall was located.

 

The journey he had taken lightly had been full of trials and tribulations.

 

Having resolved all of that, Ha Mu-baek headed toward Gyoryong Hall.

 

‘How much time is left now?’

 

Now the air had changed from cool to chilly.

 

It had changed enough that he could even feel a slight cold.

 

Autumn was passing and winter was approaching.

 

Ha Mu-baek quietly cast his gaze eastward.

 

 

 

***

 

 

 

So Hwi-ung received a message that had flown from the Tang Family.

 

It contained detailed information about the being called Myo Gu-eung.

 

And about his end as well.

 

“Hehe. Ha Mu-baek again this time? Really.”

 

Laughter flowed out.

 

Yet his expression was strange.

 

Perhaps.

 

It could have brought about the destruction of the Central Plains’ Murim.

 

A poison that even Ten Thousand Poisons Immunity couldn’t block.

 

Poison Emperor. It was Dang Ja-cheong’s firm declaration.

 

They had no choice but to believe it.

 

But to think that Ha Mu-baek had dealt with such a poison master who scattered such toxins freely.

 

Though they said his death wasn’t confirmed, both arms and one leg had been severed.

 

With such a body falling into the rapids of Angry Dragon Rapids, survival itself would be impossible.

 

“Mu-baek. What exactly are you….”

 

However, there was one fact missing from the Tang Family’s message.

 

It was the story about Go Hu-rak’s secret cave.

 

And of course, the story about Manhwang as well.

 

This was the opinion of Dang Ja-cheong and Dang Ji-yeon.

 

Dang Mu-ryeong accepted their opinion and didn’t reveal those facts.

 

Dang Ja-cheong packed his belongings again and departed for Namman.

 

His destination was the place where Poison Well had been located.

 

It was to confirm the ability of the Poison-Avoiding Bead that Ha Mu-baek had revived, or rather, what Dang Ja-cheong had named the Infinite Poison-Avoiding Bead.

 

To confirm whether it was All Poisons Immunity that surpassed Ten Thousand Poisons Immunity, he needed the poison from that cave, which had been left behind without complete destruction.

 

 

 

***

 

 

 

“Heh, heheh, heheheh.”

 

Gong Ya-jang-cheon let out a hollow laugh while holding the message in his hand.

 

Mun In-baek-song looked at the Four Seas Alliance Leader.

 

This place was currently holding a meeting in an extremely serious atmosphere.

 

There was one reason.

 

That Nameless Absolute Supreme Poison that had caused a disaster-like incident in Namman.

 

It was a meeting to discuss countermeasures for when it flowed into the Central Plains.

 

Only negative words flowed from Dokya Cave Master Dok Do-gun’s mouth.

 

That no matter what combinations they tried, they were failing to create an antidote.

 

The one hopeful thing was that they had barely managed to find a combination that slowed the poison’s progression and were researching in that direction.

 

At that moment, Jeongcheon Alliance sent a message claiming it was urgent news.

 

Though they weren’t on terms to exchange messages like this.

 

Gong Ya-jang-cheon handed the message to Mun In-baek-song.

 

Soon Mun In-baek-song also let out a hollow laugh.

 

“What exactly is this news about?”

 

Someone at the meeting asked with frustration and curiosity.

 

“Dokya Cave Master.”

 

Gong Ya-jang-cheon called out to Dok Do-gun.

 

“What is it?”

 

“You said that even Ha Mu-baek would die from the Nameless Absolute Supreme Poison, didn’t you?”

 

“Of course.”

 

Dok Do-gun answered with a nod.

 

“So Hwi-ung says this. The beast of that Nameless Absolute Supreme Poison has fallen by Ha Mu-baek’s hand, so don’t worry too much.”

 

“Wh-what!!!”

 

Dok Do-gun’s eyes widened as if he couldn’t believe it at all.

 

Mun In-baek-song handed the message to him.

 

“Th-this is, this is impossible!!!”

 

A scream-like cry burst from Dok Do-gun’s mouth after reading the entire message.

 

Dokya Cave, the world’s greatest poison sect.

 

That pride had been wounded.

 

Gong Ya-jang-cheon fell into thought with a complicated expression.

 

‘Ha Mu-baek. What kind of monster are you trying to become….’

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