The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 382

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Chapter 382. This is Absurd

 

 

 

 

 

Dawn broke.

 

Pyeong Deok-jo had risen early and was immersed in his training.

 

He paid no mind to the fact that others could see his practice.

 

An attitude that showed he didn’t care if they watched.

 

The Bongma Corps members began waking up one by one and emerging from their simple tents.

 

The first to rise was Gwan Ha-gyeong.

 

Seeing Pyeong Deok-jo training, she picked up her blade and began practicing the Dancheon Chamma Blade technique.

 

Was it because the two of them were doing so?

 

Everyone who emerged from the tents began training as well.

 

Not only Yu Gwi-gwang, but even Chu Ryang.

 

The last to emerge was Ha Mu-baek.

 

He nodded his head.

 

“Well then, let’s go.”

 

Saying that, he shot up to the top of the castle wall in one leap.

 

Pyeong Deok-jo sheathed his sword and followed behind.

 

Skillfully deploying Suzaku Heaven Flight, he reached the top of the castle wall in one bound.

 

The Bongma Corps and Maengryong Members stared blankly at the sight.

 

“Su, Suzaku Heaven Flight… H-how…?”

 

Pung Geon muttered with an expression of disbelief.

 

From yesterday evening until now, he had been continuously shocked.

 

Ever since meeting Ha Mu-baek, he couldn’t maintain his composure.

 

Ha Mu-baek looked down at the castle wall and asked.

 

“Aren’t you coming up?”

 

Only then did those on the ground leap toward the rope ladder they had set up the previous day.

 

The Bongma Corps members who reached the top of the castle wall with one or two leaps using the rope ladder as a foothold.

 

And the Maengryong Members who needed three or four leaps.

 

Finally, even Chu Ryang who climbed up the rope ladder.

 

Ha Mu-baek looked at them with an expression of disbelief.

 

“You wandered around Sanwol Demon Forest at that level? When the jiangshi have jumping ability?”

 

“We moved as a group, and we set up ropes for jumping wherever needed. Plus we mainly moved through confirmed areas.”

 

Pung Geon answered.

 

He immediately asked.

 

“Wasn’t the movement technique Instructor Pyeong just used Suzaku Heaven Flight?”

 

Ha Mu-baek nodded.

 

“H-how does Instructor Pyeong know Bongma Corps’ exclusive movement technique… It’s a technique that can only be transmitted after reaching the peak realm…”

 

Ha Mu-baek looked at Pung Geon with an expression of disbelief.

 

“Suzaku Heaven Flight is Bongma Corps’ exclusive mental technique? And it can only be transmitted after reaching the peak realm? Ha.”

 

A hollow laugh escaped him naturally.

 

Pung Geon looked at him as if Ha Mu-baek’s reaction was strange.

 

“Why are you acting like that?”

 

The question was cautious.

 

“Because this is absurd.”

 

There was even anger in that voice.

 

So naturally they had no choice but to carefully watch Ha Mu-baek’s mood.

 

“I could force myself to understand it being Bongma Corps’ exclusive movement technique… but putting conditions on its transmission?”

 

He was muttering to himself.

 

His anger seemed to be rising gradually.

 

“Instructor Ha. What exactly is the reason for this…?”

 

Pyeong Deok-jo stepped forward.

 

After all, among them, he had the closest relationship with Ha Mu-baek.

 

Even if the difference wasn’t much.

 

“Their behavior is absurd and infuriating.”

 

It was an answer full of irritation.

 

“So, what exactly is causing this?”

 

Pyeong Deok-jo asked cautiously again.

 

“Suzaku Heaven Flight.”

 

“Yes.”

 

“Who do you think created that? I created it. Bongma Corps’ exclusive mental technique? That’s not even funny.”

 

At Ha Mu-baek’s words, the Bongma Corps members once again showed shocked faces.

 

Because it was a story they never could have imagined.

 

“Surely… the Alliance Leader gave it to us…”

 

Since Pung Geon knew the story about the movement technique called Suzaku Heaven Flight well, he tilted his head and spoke.

 

“The Alliance Leader would have given it. The Alliance Leader asked me for it, saying it seemed necessary for Bongma Corps too.”

 

When Ha Mu-baek nodded as if it were natural and spoke.

 

Everyone except Ha Mu-baek stopped moving.

 

Because those were absolutely not words that should come out so easily.

 

Jeongcheon Alliance Leader.

 

The absolute hero of the Murim War, So Hwi-ung.

 

He was talking about him as if discussing the neighbor next door.

 

Moreover.

 

That So Hwi-ung had asked Ha Mu-baek for martial arts.

 

It was natural that they couldn’t believe it.

 

“This isn’t what I taught it for. Fuck. Only from the peak realm? Crazy bastards. You there. Was it Pung Geon?”

 

“Yes?”

 

Pung Geon answered in shock.

 

“How many in Bongma Corps have reached the peak realm?”

 

“Dan-ju is around mid-peak level. Vice Dan-ju falls slightly short of that. Five commanders are at early peak, and five vice commanders have just stepped into the peak realm.”

 

“So currently twelve people have learned Suzaku Heaven Flight?”

 

“Yes.”

 

At Pung Geon’s answer.

 

Ha Mu-baek’s robes began to flutter.

 

His martial robes swelled as if about to burst, and rough winds whirled in all directions.

 

“Ugh.”

 

At the sight of Ha Mu-baek suddenly drawing up and releasing his energy, the ten people groaned and were pushed back.

 

Ha Mu-baek’s gaze turned north.

 

Where Bongma Corps’ stronghold was located.

 

“Should I go there right now and smash it all?”

 

It was a mutter filled with killing intent.

 

Such outrageous words flowed out as if they were nothing.

 

Yet somehow, it seemed like he really could do it.

 

“F-first, please calm down, Instructor Ha. Don’t you have something to do first?”

 

Pyeong Deok-jo cried out desperately.

 

Whether those words served as a reminder, Ha Mu-baek’s momentum subsided.

 

“Grr.”

 

A frustrated sound that he couldn’t bear but had to endure flowed from Ha Mu-baek’s mouth.

 

Honestly.

 

He was furious enough to go crazy.

 

But now wasn’t the time to worry about Bongma Corps.

 

He needed to focus on Maengryong Corps at Gyoryong Hall.

 

After all, there was an order to things.

 

“I’ll mark those Bongma Corps bastards for now.”

 

It was a murderous muttering.

 

Just hearing it faintly was enough to send chills down one’s spine.

 

“Why exactly are you so angry?”

 

Pyeong Deok-jo asked again.

 

“Suzaku Flight. How was it after learning it?”

 

“It was useful and good. Low internal energy consumption too. I wondered how such a movement technique could exist. Though it only shoots straight up vertically.”

 

Ha Mu-baek nodded at Pyeong Deok-jo’s honest assessment.

 

The last comment didn’t matter either.

 

That’s what the movement technique was originally made for anyway.

 

“What’s your current level?”

 

“Beginning of first-rate.”

 

“What about recently?”

 

“I was second-rate.”

 

Ha Mu-baek looked at the Bongma Corps members and Maengryong Members.

 

The Bongma Corps members had all reached first-rate.

 

Among the Maengryong Members, Yu Gwi-gwang was at the end of second-rate, while the rest were second-rate or beginning second-rate.

 

“Did you hear that? Even someone like Pyeong Deok-jo mastered this movement technique in just two days. And they say you need to reach peak level to receive transmission of this?”

 

Thinking about it again made his anger boil over as Ha Mu-baek growled.

 

The Bongma Corps members and Maengryong Members were shocked.

 

They had occasionally seen the Commander or Vice Commander soar magnificently into the air, thinking it must be some ascending lightness skill.

 

But someone who had just entered beginning first-rate could perform it skillfully in just two days.

 

They couldn’t help but believe it.

 

They had just seen Pyeong Deok-jo perform Suzaku Flight moments ago.

 

“Suzaku Flight is a movement technique created so that even those with low martial arts levels could easily learn it and avoid jiangshi. And now they’re transmitting it in such a way that only twelve people, and only the strongest ones at that, have learned it. Should I be angry or not?”

 

Ha Mu-baek asked.

 

Only then could everyone understand why Ha Mu-baek was furious.

 

“Damn it. When I return to Gyoryong Hall, I’ll have to teach Suzaku Flight to the Maengryong Corps kids first.”

 

He spoke with bubbling anger filling his words.

 

Ha Mu-baek whipped his head toward the Bongma Corps members and Maengryong Members.

 

“Let’s start with you guys learning it first.”

 

Sparks flew from Ha Mu-baek’s eyes.

 

And.

 

Those nine people began training in Suzaku Flight.

 

After Pyeong Deok-jo, who had learned it a few days earlier, demonstrated it several times.

 

The Bongma Corps members quickly got the hang of it.

 

It was talent befitting those from Jamryong Unit and Waryong Corps backgrounds.

 

Among them, the one with the fastest achievement wasn’t Squad Leader Pung Geon, but Gwan Ha-gyeong.

 

Ha Mu-baek nodded at her performance.

 

‘It seems she also received transmission of Single Heaven Demon Slaying Blade, as expected. She has talent. Rather, she’s a late bloomer.’

 

She too had reached first-rate level.

 

Compared to the last Eastern Tournament, she had become unrecognizably stronger.

 

It must be thanks to continuous training since then, plus the real combat experience in Sanwol Demon Forest.

 

Had Gwan Ha-gyeong lost to Ju U-myeong at the Eastern Tournament?

 

What would happen if the two fought again now?

 

Ju U-myeong was also at first-rate level.

 

Currently, among Gyoryong Hall cadets, Namgung Hu (Namgung Ji-hu) was the only one who had stepped into peak level.

 

‘If the other guys just had an opportunity too.’

 

There were several cadets who had already filled their vessels to the brim.

 

They too were just one drop short.

 

But.

 

Here.

 

Gwan Ha-gyeong was the same.

 

He couldn’t guarantee the outcome of a match.

 

Unlike back then.

 

The match would truly be decided in a split second, by a hair’s breadth.

 

It could be Ju U-myeong’s victory, or it could be Gwan Ha-gyeong’s victory.

 

Even Ha Mu-baek couldn’t rashly predict the result.

 

After spending one day, Bongma Corps became proficient at performing Suzaku Flight.

 

After spending two days, the Maengryong Members also became quite skilled.

 

Only then did they begin entering Sanwol Demon Forest in earnest.

 

Bongma Corps’s mission was to identify jiangshi territories.

 

And Ha Mu-baek and Pyeong Deok-jo’s purpose was to capture jiangshi specimens.

 

However.

 

Ha Mu-baek didn’t seem to have any intention of capturing them.

 

Every time jiangshi appeared.

 

He had Pyeong Deok-jo or Bongma Corps deal with them.

 

Death Jiangshi were no match for them at all now.

 

Bongma Corps had plenty of experience from the start.

 

So.

 

This time, they brought four jiangshi mixed with Death Jiangshi and Poison Jiangshi.

 

Only then did tension appear in their expressions.

 

The four Maengryong Members held shields and performed the basic shield techniques that Zhuge Ming had used to train Maengryong Corps.

 

Using internal energy.

 

Incorporating real combat experience.

 

However.

 

Since there was a mix of people who learned directly from Zhuge Ming and those who learned again from such people, disappointing parts were visible everywhere.

 

They were just filling those disappointing parts with experience.

 

“There! Push the shield more! Your strength is weak!”

 

Ha Mu-baek’s criticism flew immediately.

 

Bongma Corps deployed Dragon Flow Sword Formation while stabbing at the jiangshi through the gaps that Maengryong Corps blocked.

 

Perhaps because they had learned properly at Gyoryong Hall, their Dragon Flow Sword Technique was quite well-structured.

 

Ha Mu-baek’s eyes and mouth moved busily.

 

He had to give criticism and instructions to Pyeong Deok-jo, Bongma Corps, and Maengryong Corps respectively.

 

He never expected he’d end up playing instructor here.

 

Nevertheless, Ha Mu-baek drove them harshly.

 

In the truest sense, this was what would really help them.

 

Since he had promised to help, Ha Mu-baek was doing his best.

 

He corrected Maengryong Corps’s shield techniques.

 

Bongma Corps’s Dragon Flow Sword Formation.

 

And then transmitted martial arts to Maengryong Corps again.

 

Even if they returned safely from this mission.

 

There was no telling what tricks Bongma Corps might pull again.

 

Just looking at the case of the Vermillion Bird Soaring Heaven movement technique.

 

Those bastards definitely had some kind of intention.

 

So they needed to become stronger.

 

They needed to raise their level by one stage.

 

Like this, they accumulated practical experience while dealing with jiangshi.

 

The entities that have the greatest influence on the territory of Sanwol Demon Forest are indeed powerful entities like Dark Blood Jiangshi or Silent Iron Jiangshi.

 

Once these bastards’ territories are established, the territories of Blood Jiangshi, Poison Gang Jiangshi, and Death Jiangshi are determined.

 

Of course, first come a small number of truly monster-like entities stronger than Dark Blood or Silent Iron.

 

They rarely had occasion to encounter those bastards.

 

Just looking at the current territories, those bastards’ territories seemed to still be undisturbed.

 

After confirming the changed territories like this, they updated previous records and headed deeper and deeper.

 

Since Ha Mu-baek was leading them, they moved while avoiding the Silent Blood Jiangshi’s territory.

 

And they also avoided the Dark Blood Jiangshi, whose reasons for narrowing its sphere of influence and occupying territory nearby were incomprehensible.

 

The Dark Blood Jiangshi’s sphere of influence was originally the entire Sanwol Demon Forest.

 

Now that it was trapped within Sanwol Great Wall, if one were to define that bastard’s territory, it would be the entire interior of Sanwol Great Wall.

 

It was puzzling that such a creature was occupying a specific territory nearby.

 

In any case, now was not the time to meet those bastards, so they moved while avoiding them for the time being.

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