The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 385
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Chapter 385. Th-Thank You
Clang!
A loud noise rang out.
Only then did Pyeong Deok-jo confirm the Beheaded Dark Blood Demon that had appeared before his eyes.
“Uh, ugh!”
Startled, Pyeong Deok-jo stumbled backward and fell on his rear.
He couldn’t help it.
It truly was an invisible movement.
If Ha Mu-baek hadn’t approached and drawn his sword.
Pyeong Deok-jo’s head would be flying through the air right now.
“Its habits seem to be exactly the same.”
Ha Mu-baek muttered while looking at the Beheaded Dark Blood Demon.
The head at its side that met Ha Mu-baek’s gaze seemed to grin wickedly.
Then it disappeared again.
And the place it appeared was right in front of Gwan Ha-gyeong.
The creature’s left hand claws flew toward Gwan Ha-gyeong’s neck, but.
Clang!
They were blocked by Ha Mu-baek’s sword.
“Grrrrowl.”
Letting out a rough cry, the Beheaded Dark Blood Demon tried to disappear again, but.
Thud!
It took Ha Mu-baek’s kick and flew backward.
Roll roll roll.
The head that had fallen from its side rolled across the ground.
Then it looked at the group and gave another eerie smile.
“Ugh.”
“Kuk.”
Those who unconsciously let out groans at that bizarre sight.
Thump!
Ha Mu-baek moved forward in an instant and raised his foot to stomp on that head, but.
The head quickly rolled away back to its body.
And Ha Mu-baek’s foot only dug a large hole in the innocent ground.
“This damn rat bastard.”
Ha Mu-baek muttered while looking at the Beheaded Dark Blood Demon getting back up.
“Grrowl.”
The Beheaded Dark Blood Demon glared at Ha Mu-baek and let out a cry.
It grinned wickedly, then disappeared again.
The place it appeared was once again in front of Gwan Ha-gyeong.
The moment Ha Mu-baek tried to block its claws, the head at its side flew toward Ha Mu-baek.
The Beheaded Dark Blood Demon’s head revealed sharp fangs and tried to bite Ha Mu-baek’s neck.
Ha Mu-baek slightly twisted his head to avoid it.
The Beheaded Dark Blood Demon’s body moved again and caught the falling head.
Everyone’s jaws dropped at that bizarre fighting style.
Throwing and catching its head.
A demon.
It was truly a monster that perfectly fit the word demon.
“For a jiangshi… what an endlessly cunning bastard.”
Ha Mu-baek could feel that the creature held endless hostility toward him.
Yet its actual attacks were directed at those around him.
It was waiting for Ha Mu-baek’s guard to drop in the meantime.
It was an unbelievable tactic for a jiangshi without intelligence.
“Kyaak.”
Black Gang Qi rose from the Beheaded Dark Blood Demon’s claws as it let out another bizarre sound.
The same went for its teeth.
“Uhihik.”
Yu Gwi-gwang was startled and let out a groan.
Among Dark Blood Jiangshi, the higher-level specimens occasionally used Gang Qi like that.
The creature grinned wickedly again.
Its disappearing body movement and claws that appeared in an instant.
Clang!
This time, pure white Gang Qi was also formed on Ha Mu-baek’s sword.
“Kiaaaaak!”
The Beheaded Dark Blood Demon screamed the moment it contacted the Gang Qi.
It was a sudden reaction, but.
Ha Mu-baek was indifferent.
The sword that moved before the creature could disappear.
Slash.
Cut off the right arm that was holding the head.
Thud.
Roll roll roll.
The head rolled across the ground.
Ha Mu-baek stomped his foot once more, but.
Once again it rolled away and floated up into midair.
It had used Void Grasping on its own head.
Interest flickered in Ha Mu-baek’s eyes.
The Beheaded Blood Demon he had encountered before didn’t have such skills.
That specimen seemed to have mutated from a Blood Jiangshi to a Beheaded Blood Demon.
The Bongma Corps, Maengryong Corps, and Pyeong Deok-jo hesitantly stepped back at that horrific sight.
“Hmm.”
Ha Mu-baek stared intently at the creature he had named the Beheaded Dark Blood Demon.
As if curious what more it would do.
The arm that had fallen to the ground rose into the air.
It floated up and attached to the shoulder.
Black energy flowed out thickly and wrapped around the arm.
Rotted flesh gradually grew and the arm was reattaching to the body.
This was also a sight he was seeing for the first time.
“What the hell are you?”
“Grrrrowl.”
The only response to Ha Mu-baek’s question was a rough cry.
“Kirruk?”
Just then.
The head floating in midair tilted to one side.
The shoulder that was reattaching its right arm.
The black energy that had been thickly rising gradually lost its momentum.
Instead.
A pure white light seemed to flicker faintly.
Thud.
The arm fell straight down.
The head that had been looking at its own shoulder whipped around toward Ha Mu-baek.
Killing intent surged from its pitch-black eyes.
It had no choice.
The detestable energy that had led the Beheaded Dark Blood Demon here.
That loathsome aura was clinging to its shoulder and arm.
Because of that, it couldn’t reattach them.
“Kaaaaaaak!!!”
Screaming hideously, both the torso and head charged toward Ha Mu-baek.
The creatures rushing from left and right respectively.
“Has it lost its mind?”
Seeing it suddenly charge after abandoning its meticulous tactics until now.
Ha Mu-baek swung his sword again.
However.
This time without sword aura.
Slash.
He cut off the left arm.
Though they say a Dark Blood Jiangshi’s body can block even sword aura, someone of Ha Mu-baek’s level could cut off a Dark Blood Jiangshi’s arm even without sword aura.
Thwack!
The torso and head flew backward from Ha Mu-baek’s kick.
The head floating up into midair.
The torso getting back up.
The left arm floating into midair attached to the torso without any problem.
A different situation from before.
Ha Mu-baek nodded his head.
His expression suggested he understood something.
“It seems the energy I possess is antagonistic.”
That dark, writhing energy couldn’t exert power against Ha Mu-baek’s pure white sword aura.
What had been cast aside earlier must have been an instinctive reaction to the antagonistic energy.
Ha Mu-baek activated his Infinite Bright Wheel Eye.
Dark energy swirling around the dantian.
The same energy was swirling in the head as well.
‘Could it be the lower dantian and upper dantian?’
The dantian and head were connected by an extremely thin strand of energy.
As if connected by thread.
Without the Infinite Bright Wheel Eye, he never would have been able to perceive it.
Ha Mu-baek swung his sword to cut that thread.
But it reconnected immediately.
This time it was a sword imbued with sword aura.
Thud.
The head seemed to fall to the ground.
Then it floated back up again.
The thread reconnected as well.
It was a connection that endured even antagonistic power.
The energy that created such bizarre demons had Ha Mu-baek’s own power as its antithesis.
‘Then which of the energies I possess acts as the antithesis?’
Ha Mu-baek slowly tested them one by one.
The white sword aura had Mugeuk, Wish Fulfillment, and Radiance all mixed together.
Ha Mu-baek separated Infinite Ruyi and Radiance through will.
Infinite Ruyi couldn’t be separated yet.
It was probably because he had learned martial arts that were originally together.
Thinking he could separate this too when his level rose higher, he imbued Infinite Ruyi energy and cut the creature’s shoulder again.
The fallen shoulder reattached.
‘So it’s Radiance.’
With that, he could identify the antagonistic energy.
Since wounds from sword aura without Radiance energy healed.
Now it seemed he had discovered everything there was to know.
Ha Mu-baek’s sword emitted pure white sword aura.
Sword aura purely containing Radiance energy.
“Kiaaaak! Kiak!”
The Beheaded Dark Blood Demon screamed hideously as if having a seizure and charged at Ha Mu-baek.
A simple thrust.
With that single move, the Beheaded Dark Blood Demon’s dantian was pierced.
And Radiance energy seemed to rage like a storm through the creature’s body.
Crumble.
In an instant, the torso crumbled and scattered.
“Kraaaaa!”
The sound from the head this time was definitely a scream.
A scream filled with agony.
The energy that had filled the head disappeared powerlessly.
“Krrrrrrk.”
The voice of the scream changed.
“Kuk. Wh-what is this…?”
And then a human voice flowed out.
The people around were shocked by those words.
Speaking with only a head remaining.
What kind of monster was that supposed to be?
They retreated a little further back.
Only Ha Mu-baek recognized the change that had occurred in the head.
Radiance energy seeped into the place where the dark energy had disappeared.
A phenomenon like Dying Light Reflection occurred for just a brief moment.
“You, you are? Su-surely the Hocheon Corps Leader…”
“Do you know me?”
Pung Gi-hyu tried to nod but couldn’t move.
“What happened?”
“You became a monster, and I dealt with it.”
Though it was a short answer.
Pung Gi-hyu roughly guessed the situation.
Since his torso was nowhere to be seen.
He was feeling something completely different from when he had briefly regained consciousness.
“Who are you?”
“Pung Gi-hyu. Lord of Pungryeong Valley. Th-thank you. Hocheon… Corps…”
Unable to finish his words, Pung Gi-hyu’s head slowly turned to dust and crumbled away.
That spot was left completely empty as if nothing had been there from the beginning.
“Pung Gi-hyu…”
It was a name that held a small place in his memory.
The reason was nothing special.
He was someone who had learned the Annihilation Technique and erased his own sect with his own hands.
Back then, we couldn’t catch the one who had become a Dark Blood Jiangshi, but it was here all along.
“Come to think of it….”
One more thing came to mind.
Certainly Yeon Baek-ryang, the Dark Blood Jiangshi that had troubled them before being executed by their hands.
It had the same face as that creature.
To think this only occurred to me now.
“As expected. The Dark Blood Jiangshi that had died was resurrected as a Beheaded Dark Blood Demon? Come to think of it, there’s no inner core either.”
Since it had turned to dust and completely disappeared into nothingness, there was no inner core either.
The inner core that jiangshi would normally possess.
“I-Instructor Ha. What on earth is this….”
Only then did Pyeong Deok-jo carefully approach and ask.
“Well. I’m not sure either. This creature was a first for me too.”
While conquering Sanwol Demon Forest, I had confirmed the countless demons that existed here.
But this was the first time a Dark Blood Jiangshi had become a Beheaded Dark Blood Demon.
Its appearance and behavior truly suited the name ‘demon.'”
“How was it?”
Ha Mu-baek turned around smoothly and asked.
Everyone’s faces were pale white.
Ha Mu-baek chuckled at that sight.
“Sorry about that. The presence I felt was definitely like a Dark Blood Jiangshi, but I didn’t know it would be something like that either.”
Ha Mu-baek’s overly calm demeanor.
Pung Geon and the rest of the group couldn’t help but be surprised once again by his attitude.
“Let’s rest for a bit. Then we’ll move again. Since that thing disappeared, other jiangshi will soon appear due to the territorial changes.”
***
Late at night when today’s training had all ended.
Ha Seol-ran and Yeon Ha-min, who were preparing for bed after bathing, received an unexpected visitor.
“Instructor Han?”
Han Seol-bing.
She had personally come to their room at Yeonryong Lodge.
“What brings you here?”
Ha Seol-ran asked.
“I have some business with Cadet Yeon Ha-min. Could I speak with her for a moment?”
“Yes.”
Though she didn’t know what it was about, Yeon Ha-min obediently rose from her seat and put on her outer robe.
Since she was currently wearing sleepwear, it was more convenient to put on an outer robe rather than change into new clothes.
The two women began walking.
Yeon Ha-min silently followed behind Han Seol-bing.
The place she headed to was the instructors’ quarters, Han Seol-bing’s room.
As Yeon Ha-min sat at the small tea table, she noticed boxes stacked in one corner of the room.
“Those are…?”
“Poison Resistance Pills that your instructor brought from the Sichuan Tang Family.”
Han Seol-bing briefly explained.
“Ah.”
That’s right, the instructor had returned very briefly before disappearing again quickly.
Those were the results of that trip.
Han Seol-bing looked at Yeon Ha-min.
And she spoke.
“Aren’t you lacking in martial arts right now?”
At the unexpected question, Yeon Ha-min hesitated for a moment.
“I am lacking.”
And she answered honestly.
She knew that the Three Disasters Technique and Bright Sight were excellent martial arts.
Nevertheless, it was true that she felt lacking.
“Then, would you consider learning martial arts from the Yeon Family?”
Once again, a completely unexpected question flew at her.
Crack.
As soon as Yeon Ha-min heard the question, she clenched her teeth.
The sound of grinding teeth echoed.
She opened her eyes sharply and shook her head.
“I will absolutely never learn martial arts from that place.”
It was an answer filled with firm, steel-like determination.
Han Seol-bing watched her quietly, then took out a secret manual from her bosom and placed it on the tea table.
“…What’s this?”
“The Vice Director asked me to. To give this to you.”
The Youngest Uncle was mentioned.
But this time, she turned her head away sharply.
It was natural.
If the Youngest Uncle had asked her to deliver it, it would be Yeon Family martial arts.
This was a part she could never compromise on.
No matter how much the Youngest Uncle had helped her and Mother, and delivered Mother’s letter.
She had not even a speck of intention to learn Yeon Family martial arts.
“The Vice Director said this. That if it were this martial art, you would learn it.”
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