The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 398

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Chapter 398. If You’re Curious, Come and See

 

 

 

 

 

Crash!

 

A loud noise rang out from the shield.

 

The cadet who first received Ha Mu-baek’s attack properly held up his shield and blocked Ha Mu-baek’s strike.

 

He didn’t stop there.

 

He moved immediately.

 

The other cadets in the same group did likewise.

 

They moved in proper formation according to the tactical formation.

 

Ha Mu-baek nodded his head very slightly and minutely.

 

He pressed them hard for the designated time like that.

 

Their movements hesitated very minutely.

 

But compared to yesterday, they moved almost properly.

 

They moved quickly.

 

Even though Ha Mu-baek was still emanating the aura of a Dark Blood Jiangshi.

 

They had endured it in just one day.

 

Looking at their pale faces, it seemed they hadn’t completely endured it.

 

Just.

 

Because the remnants of yesterday’s harsh training remained in their bodies.

 

It seemed their bodies reacted first and moved, with their minds following behind.

 

‘Not bad.’

 

So Ha Mu-baek spent that entire day.

 

Emanating the aura of a Dark Blood Jiangshi while pressing the Maengryong Corps cadets hard.

 

To engrave their movements into their bodies.

 

Even if he emanated the aura of a jiangshi, confirming with both eyes that he was human was one thing.

 

Seeing a real jiangshi was another matter entirely.

 

Except for the Seventh Group, none had experience seeing real jiangshi.

 

Even during the first encounter.

 

Making their bodies react naturally.

 

That was Ha Mu-baek’s current primary goal.

 

The first encounter.

 

It would be a once-in-a-lifetime experience and opportunity for them.

 

Even though night had deepened, Ha Mu-baek didn’t stop.

 

The trace of minute hesitation remaining in their movements.

 

To root that out completely.

 

Only Ha Mu-baek could do this.

 

His master Wi Ji-gun couldn’t emanate the aura of jiangshi, and Han Seol-bing, who had fought desperately together in Sanwol Demon Forest, also couldn’t emanate only the aura of jiangshi.

 

Wi Ji-gun might be able to do it if he heard the method from Ha Mu-baek and pondered it for a few days.

 

But for now, even those few days were precious.

 

Ha Mu-baek pressed them hard, and pressed them again.

 

Ha Mu-baek’s form grew faster and faster, creating the illusion that he appeared in twenty places simultaneously.

 

Ha Mu-baek attacked twenty groups simultaneously with very minute time differences.

 

That meant the time the Maengryong Corps cadets could rest was reduced.

 

Yesterday, after facing him once, it was their turn again after he faced thirty-eight other groups.

 

Now it was twenty groups and nineteen groups.

 

Since Ha Mu-baek’s attacks continued alternately.

 

After resting for half of half a moment, attacks came flying again.

 

Ha Mu-baek’s attacks came rushing like lightning the moment they caught their breath and felt their stamina recover slightly.

 

They received it, and received it again.

 

Their meager internal energy was depleted and their stamina was exhausted.

 

Even so, Ha Mu-baek didn’t stop.

 

Even when they could barely hold their swords and shields with trembling arms.

 

Ha Mu-baek’s attacks came flying, precisely matched to that level of strength.

 

By dawn.

 

They couldn’t even remember how they had moved.

 

When the sound of air being cut rang out as Ha Mu-baek charged, their arms and legs simply moved.

 

Their bodies moved even though they couldn’t understand why they moved like that.

 

In that state, past midnight.

 

The training finally ended when it reached the hour of the Ox.

 

Everyone collapsed to the ground, completely exhausted.

 

More than half had no strength to stand, no strength even to sit.

 

The Seventh Group cadets were no different.

 

When facing them, he had pressed them even harder and more harshly according to their level.

 

Ha Mu-baek looked at the sprawled cadets and stepped onto the platform.

 

Only small beads of sweat formed on his face.

 

Despite moving at such high speed for so long without rest.

 

“Mon, mon, monster… huff, huff, huff, huff…”

 

Dang Jin-san lay sprawled on the ground and muttered as if appalled by the instructor’s appearance.

 

Everyone else must be thinking the same thing.

 

No matter how they looked at it.

 

He seemed stronger than not only the Jamryong Corps Leader and Waryong Corps Leader, but even the Gyoryong Hall Master.

 

They had never even heard of, let alone seen, such tremendous movement of attacking twenty places almost simultaneously.

 

Why was such an incredible expert at Gyoryong Hall, and in the Maengryong Corps at that?

 

That question disappeared as soon as it arose.

 

They were too exhausted.

 

To the point where their heads refused to think at all.

 

“This level seems to cover the basics. Tomorrow will be real combat training. Dismissed.”

 

Leaving those words, Ha Mu-baek disappeared.

 

The Maengryong Corps instructors who had been watching the training from one side of the Great Training Ground had also disappeared at some point.

 

Only Pyeong Deok-jo and Han Seol-bing remained.

 

“Ruthless, so ruthless.”

 

Han Seol-bing shook her head and muttered.

 

“You’re right. So this is what it’s like when he really presses hard.”

 

Pyeong Deok-jo muttered, thinking anew that Ha Mu-baek had shown much consideration for his circumstances in Sanwol Demon Forest.

 

“No. He’s someone who could be even more ruthless than this… He stopped here because this was the limit for those children.”

 

Leaving those words, Han Seol-bing departed.

 

Pyeong Deok-jo’s face turned pale.

 

Just what kind of.

 

Ha Mu-baek.

 

What kind of hellish battlefield had that person emerged from?

 

 

 

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Chirp. Chirp. Chirp.

 

Coo-coo. Coo-coo. Coo-coo. Coo-coo.

 

Bird songs could be heard from outside the window.

 

At that sound, Ha Seol-ran opened her eyes.

 

Sunlight was streaming in through the gaps of the closed window.

 

“Ugh.”

 

As she sat up in bed, a groan naturally escaped due to muscle pain.

 

She barely managed to move and open the window, and bright sunlight filled the room.

 

The sun was at mid-heaven.

 

“I’m completely late.”

 

Ha Seol-ran, confirming the time, muttered calmly.

 

When she was this late, she didn’t even feel like hurrying.

 

The morning classes held at the school building.

 

It seemed she couldn’t go today.

 

Her gaze turned to the bed on the opposite side.

 

There was.

 

Yeon Ha-min, who was just barely opening her eyes and getting up while frowning from muscle pain.

 

Yesterday.

 

No.

 

Today.

 

Training had ended only at the hour of the Rat.

 

She couldn’t even remember how she had returned to the dormitory and fallen asleep.

 

Naturally, she couldn’t even think of circulating her qi.

 

The price for that was the muscle pain she felt throughout her body now.

 

If she had circulated her qi for at least one cycle before sleeping, it wouldn’t be this bad.

 

Ha Seol-ran and Yeon Ha-min’s eyes met.

 

The two nodded and began circulating their qi even now.

 

Though late, they had to do it now for this terrible muscle pain to subside somewhat.

 

Ha Seol-ran practiced the Infinite Feminine Mind Method.

 

Yeon Ha-min practiced the Full Moon Illuminating Flower Mind Method from the secret manual of the Ten Thousand Flowers Moon Dance Sword.

 

This had happened to all the Maengryong Corps cadets.

 

Not a single cadet had woken up on time today.

 

Everyone had barely opened their eyes only after the sun reached mid-heaven.

 

They fell into qi circulation due to the muscle pain pounding throughout their bodies.

 

As the morning hours passed like this.

 

Around lunchtime.

 

The Maengryong Corps 7th Group gathered together and headed to Damryong Pavilion.

 

“Hey there.”

 

On the way to Damryong East Pavilion, they met Namgung Hu and Namgung Yu.

 

They were just coming out of the school building.

 

“It seems like last night was incredible?”

 

At Namgung Hu’s question, Dang Jin-san shook his head back and forth.

 

“Can’t even talk about it. Whew.”

 

A deep sigh.

 

At that exaggeration, Namgung Hu chuckled.

 

“I’m envious. Having an instructor who conducts training so you can pour out all your strength like that.”

 

At Namgung Hu’s words, three people nodded.

 

Baek Ri-pyeong, Ju U-myeong, and Dan Mok Un-rae.

 

Today at the hour of the Rat.

 

Those crazy guys who were smiling broadly even while collapsing on the ground.

 

“Come to think of it, our instructor hasn’t been visiting us lately?”

 

Last year.

 

When Namgung Hu was Namgung Ji-hu.

 

He would occasionally visit Ha Mu-baek to request sparring matches and sometimes train with the Maengryong Corps 7th Group.

 

Come to think of it, this year there had been almost no such incidents since a certain point in the first half.

 

“It seems like the instructor doesn’t have time to deal with me?”

 

That was correct.

 

He often left Gyoryong Hall and focused on group training for the Maengryong Corps.

 

“Then come to our group training. There’s room. It would be perfect if you and Yu both came.”

 

Since the Twentieth Group had two members.

 

Currently, seven people were training as one group.

 

If Namgung Hu and Namgung Yu came, it would be five and four people.

 

They could form two groups.

 

At Dang Jin-san’s words, Namgung Yu smiled slightly.

 

“I’ll pass.”

 

At least she wasn’t as crazy about martial arts as Namgung Hu.

 

At her answer, Namgung Hu showed a somewhat strangely disappointed expression.

 

“Without knowing the formation, how would you match the coordination and keep up with the training?”

 

At Namgung Yu’s point, Namgung Hu finally showed an expression of resignation.

 

She was right.

 

Participating without knowing the martial arts they trained together would only cause trouble for others.

 

At Namgung Yu’s words, Dang Jin-san’s eyes widened.

 

“You know the formation?”

 

“Since it’s martial arts that Instructor Ha teaches to the entire Maengryong Corps, I got curious and looked into it a bit.”

 

“How?”

 

“Instructor Zhuge created it, and when he transmitted it to the Maengryong Corps, he also placed that secret manual in the Great Library.”

 

“Ah…”

 

Dang Jin-san exclaimed in admiration at Namgung Yu’s answer.

 

At the same time, Namgung Hu’s gaze turned toward her.

 

Since he didn’t know about this either.

 

“Where is that secret manual?”

 

At that question, Namgung Yu shook her head.

 

“Right now you should be busy with other things?”

 

Instead of an answer to his question, he received a pointed remark.

 

Namgung Hu nodded.

 

The threshold of the pinnacle realm.

 

After entering that realm with Ha Mu-baek’s help.

 

The martial art called Emperor Sword Form approached him in a completely new way.

 

He was extremely busy practicing the Emperor Sword Form.

 

Since he could see the path to a higher realm before his eyes, he was devoting himself to that.

 

And above all.

 

He wanted to get even a little closer to his father’s realm.

 

Meanwhile, they had arrived at Damryong East Pavilion.

 

They received food on their trays and sat down to pick up their utensils.

 

While eating for a while.

 

Dang Jin-san spoke as if he had remembered something.

 

“Come to think of it, he said today would be practical training. He’ll probably bring that out, right?”

 

“Probably.”

 

Baek Ri-pyeong answered.

 

“What’s that?”

 

Namgung Hu asked curiously.

 

“If you’re curious, come watch. It should be quite interesting.”

 

Dang Jin-san said with a scheming smile.

 

Then he also spoke to Namgung Yu.

 

“It’ll be a fun and meaningful experience.”

 

But Dang Jin-san’s face was full of mischief.

 

Namgung Yu looked at Yeon Ha-min and asked.

 

“Is that really true?”

 

“I don’t know if it’ll be fun, but it will be meaningful.”

 

Yeon Ha-min brought food to her mouth and lowered the veil she had slightly lifted as she spoke.

 

“I’m telling you it’ll definitely be fun.”

 

Dang Jin-san said once more.

 

Namgung Hu and Namgung Yu observed the expressions of the other Seventh Group Cadets.

 

But they couldn’t tell.

 

Some nodded as if agreeing with Dang Jin-san’s words.

 

Others were giving looks that said to tone it down.

 

And so meal time ended.

 

Afternoon training time arrived.

 

The Maengryong Corps 7th Group Cadets naturally headed to the Training Ground.

 

Namgung Hu and Namgung Yu seemed to hesitate slightly, then headed toward the Great Training Ground.

 

They didn’t enter the Training Ground but climbed onto tree branches of suitable height surrounding the area.

 

It was to observe the training.

 

While skipping their own training.

 

It wasn’t that they were drawn by Dang Jin-san’s words.

 

Rather, it was Yeon Ha-min’s words that it would be meaningful.

 

Those words had sparked their curiosity.

 

All the Maengryong Corps Cadets gathered at the Great Training Ground.

 

One Instructor was moving among the Cadets at the Great Training Ground, comforting them.

 

It was Pyeong Deok-jo.

 

Of course, the Namgung Siblings didn’t know him.

 

“Today’s training will be quite harsh. Steel your minds.”

 

He looked after not only the group he was in charge of.

 

But also the other Cadets one by one.

 

Because of Ha Mu-baek’s intentions, he couldn’t speak in detail about today’s training.

 

“They say even if a tiger drags you away, you’ll live if you keep your wits about you. Even if it sounds like nonsense, keep it in mind.”

 

The Cadets who heard Pyeong Deok-jo’s advice only tilted their heads in confusion.

 

Since they didn’t know what would happen immediately, it was a natural reaction.

 

Ha Mu-baek appeared, and the other Maengryong Corps Instructors also showed themselves.

 

Pyeong Deok-jo had come out first because of his worries about today’s training.

 

He had experienced it directly not long ago.

 

Han Seol-bing and Ji Gun-wi were also in position.

 

Ha Mu-baek stepped onto the platform.

 

“Maengryong Corps.”

 

“Yes!!!”

 

The small call infused with internal energy was clearly heard by all the Cadets.

 

They responded with loud voices.

 

“What is today’s date?”

 

“It is the twenty-eighth day of October!”

 

Another loud shout erupted.

 

The mornings and evenings had gone beyond merely cool to downright cold.

 

Ha Mu-baek nodded at the Cadets’ resounding answer.

 

“You know well. The second-year Cadets will know. Graduation is not far off now.”

 

“…”

 

Silence fell over the Great Training Ground at Ha Mu-baek’s words.

 

“Then you must go to Sanwol Demon Forest. To that place called the Land of Death, Land of Demons, Cursed Land. Some of you who saw it last year will know.”

 

“…”

 

Some even lowered their heads.

 

“From then on, it’s real combat. You’ll have to directly take up sword and shield to face Jiangshi, and you’ll cross the boundary between life and death.”

 

Ha Mu-baek paused briefly and looked around at the Maengryong Corps Cadets.

 

“The first time is always the most difficult, hard, and dangerous. Probably, the time you’ll suffer the greatest casualties will be your first mission. Since you’ll be seeing Jiangshi for the first time in your lives. Is there any Cadet here who has seen Jiangshi before?”

 

Ha Mu-baek’s question.

 

No one answered or raised their hand.

 

The same was true for Maengryong Corps 7th Group.

 

They already had experience, but they weren’t tactless enough to reveal that fact at this moment.

 

“To reduce the casualties of that first mission, we’re starting real combat training now. Maengryong Corps second-year 7th Group and 20th Group, step out. And the rest of you form four battle formations. Execute!”

 

“Execute!”

 

After shouting loudly in response to Ha Mu-baek’s order, the Maengryong Corps Cadets moved quickly.

 

Four large battle formations were formed in an instant.

 

While the basic formation consisted of five people, when numbers increased, they could combine to form larger formations according to the tactical system.

 

That’s why the 7th Group and 20th Group, seven people, had formed one battle formation.

 

When preparations were complete.

 

Already the third day.

 

Ha Mu-baek turned his gaze toward the cargo wagon that had been sitting alone beside the Great Training Ground without even a horse to pull it.

 

At that moment.

 

Creak.

 

The cargo compartment door opened.

 

Swoosh. Swoosh. Swoosh. Swoosh.

 

Four wooden coffins flew through the air, each heading toward the center of the four battle formations.

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