The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 403
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Chapter 403. Not Enough
“It’s called a Blood Jiangshi.”
Ha Mu-baek spoke as if it was nothing special.
His voice, filled with internal energy, reached the ears of all the cadets clearly.
“Blood Jiangshi…”
Someone quietly muttered the identity Ha Mu-baek had revealed.
“It’s the strongest among the entities you might frequently encounter in Sanwol Demon Forest. You should know since you’ve clashed with it directly.”
At Ha Mu-baek’s continued explanation, the cadets unconsciously nodded their heads.
The impact of it striking their shields was truly powerful.
Its body was strong too.
No matter how much they slashed, it wouldn’t be cut.
Just what method did their instructor have to make them capable of facing such creatures?
“And the reason Blood Jiangshi are troublesome among the jiangshi of Sanwol Demon Forest is that if you’re bitten by one, you become a jiangshi.”
The cadets showed little reaction to these words.
Hadn’t they already experienced Death Jiangshi?
“You don’t become a jiangshi after being bitten and dying. You become a jiangshi on the spot when bitten.”
However.
Not a single cadet maintained their composure at Ha Mu-baek’s continued explanation.
They were simply too shocked to show any reaction.
Wasn’t that right?
To become a jiangshi on the spot if bitten.
He had thrown such creatures at them in a surprise attack without warning.
It meant they nearly became jiangshi while training.
“Damn it…”
“How could…”
Someone cursed in betrayal.
Someone lamented.
Of course, Ha Mu-baek wasn’t one to care about such reactions.
“If you go to Sanwol Demon Forest, there will be plenty of situations worse than this. It was combat-like training to prepare for such real battles. You responded better than expected.”
Once again, praise flowed from Ha Mu-baek’s mouth.
“So I think we can raise the target a bit higher.”
Was this saying he would train them even more harshly from now on?
The moment such doubt arose.
“What’s urgent now is internal energy. Everyone sit cross-legged and begin circulating energy.”
As Ha Mu-baek’s instruction fell, the cadets moved reflexively, immediately sitting cross-legged and operating the Three Talents Mind Method.
Ha Mu-baek walked among such cadets, placing his palm on their vital points and guiding the flow of their internal energy.
Though it was nothing special, just the Three Talents Mind Method.
After Ha Mu-baek laid his hands on them, it was clearly different from before.
A total of two hundred people.
Ha Mu-baek properly corrected the flow of internal energy for each and every one of them.
After doing so, night had already fallen.
Even so, the cadets’ energy circulation didn’t end.
Ha Mu-baek climbed onto the platform and quietly watched such a scene.
They were getting better and better.
These were cadets who were already showing growth faster than his predictions.
A faint smile appeared on Ha Mu-baek’s lips, but since all the cadets had their eyes closed, absorbed in energy circulation.
No one could see it.
The Seventh Group cadets were also closing their eyes and circulating energy.
Since the Namgung siblings had already returned.
There was no one watching Ha Mu-baek’s appearance.
Han Seol-bing was only watching his back.
***
Bongma Corps Black Squad Group Two.
And Maengryong Corps.
They finished their rest and gathered again.
It was because a new mission had been assigned.
“This time it’s the south.”
Squad Leader Pung Geon spoke with a somewhat resigned expression.
“Shit.”
Profanity burst out immediately.
Wasn’t this a mission that made one wonder if they could return alive this time too?
“What’s the content?”
Yu Gwi-gwang asked with his still unchanged expression.
“Same as last time.”
Though he had expected it, when those words flowed from Pung Geon’s mouth, he couldn’t help but frown.
“Will we be able to return alive?”
Chu Ryang asked carefully with a voice filled with fear.
He had no choice.
He should have died in the last mission.
That time, he was able to be safe thanks to meeting the noble person called Ha Mu-baek.
This time there wouldn’t be such fortune.
At that question.
The Bongma Corps’ gazes turned toward one person.
Gwan Ha-gyeong, receiving his comrades’ gazes, was startled.
“If we don’t encounter Dark Blood Jiangshi. If we don’t encounter a group of Blood Jiangshi. We should be able to return alive.”
Pung Geon’s words carried strength.
And all the Bongma Members nodded at his words.
It was natural.
Because Gwan Ha-gyeong had entered the pinnacle realm and could use sword energy.
Because Maengryong Corps’ shield techniques had made great progress.
They could block Silent Iron Jiangshi’s attacks and cut down those creatures.
It was different from last time.
Of course, the Dan-ju and Vice Dan-ju didn’t know these facts.
Because they hadn’t reported it.
They had simply coincidentally encountered fortune, completed the mission, and returned alive.
“However.”
Pung Geon opened his mouth again.
“The south will be more perilous than the west.”
That didn’t mean the Dan-ju and Vice Dan-ju hadn’t given them a mission of the same level.
They had given them a more perilous mission.
Because they had heard that the Bongma Corps that had already gone there on the same mission had paid a great sacrifice.
“Hmm.”
Groans of dismay flowed from here and there.
“When do we depart?”
Yu Gwi-gwang asked again.
“In five days.”
At least this time there was some breathing room.
Dan-ju and the vice Dan-ju had also taken notice of the surrounding gazes.
They had no choice but to do so.
Anyone could see they had given him a suicide mission twice now.
“Tsk. I’ll have to struggle somehow.”
Everyone nodded at Yu Gwi-gwang’s words.
What could change in just five days?
Even so, they would have to do their best to train during those five days.
The days spent with Ha Mu-baek had taught them this.
That depending on what kind of training and how you do it, tremendous progress could be made even in a short time.
Yu Gwi-gwang’s hand touched around his chest.
The part where his daughter’s portrait was.
***
“Ha Mu-baek…”
Il-no muttered while reading the report his subordinates had submitted.
The Soul-Stealing Poison Jiangshi had all failed.
That bastard really is like a monster.
How long had it been since he experienced the soul-sleeping poison, yet he managed to detoxify all those poisoned by it.
On top of that, they said he used martial arts that handled tremendous fire energy.
He had turned five Soul-Stealing Poison Jiangshi into ash in one blow.
And it seemed he had taken the last one with him.
Still, if there was one achievement.
It was that Ha Mu-baek, that monster-like bastard, had failed to discover them hiding underground.
The surveillance agent had also returned safely, perhaps thinking he was just an herb gatherer, allowing this report to come up.
The fact that the bastard who found them like a ghost had failed to find them was encouraging.
Because they had learned that his ghost-like senses weren’t perfect either.
Soul-Stealing Poison Jiangshi,
Even though it was his first time encountering new jiangshi that spread soul-sleeping poison.
He hadn’t turned Sanwol Demon Forest upside down.
If he had sensed even a trace of them, he would have definitely turned it upside down.
“Well, even back then…”
Il-no, who suddenly recalled that monster’s terrifying demonic appearance, muttered in a slightly disgusted voice.
Above the underground where they had hidden.
The surface.
The site where Blood Cult Headquarters stood.
That place had been devastated.
By a single person.
That person was Ha Mu-baek.
Of course, this happened after former Sect Leader Gae Hong-cheon had died in battle.
Il-no had succeeded in secret negotiations with Yeon Ja-gyeong through truly painstaking efforts.
They had agreed to preserve Sanwol Demon Forest.
But Ha Mu-baek, enraged by that decision, had come to Blood Cult Headquarters and smashed it to pieces.
Of course, there weren’t many people left there at the time.
They had all hidden underground.
However, it wasn’t completely empty.
Since the headquarters was Blood Cult’s sacred ground.
They had released jiangshi to guard the sacred ground.
Ten Dark Blood Jiangshi and.
One Heaven-Destroying Jiangshi.
The guardian jiangshi protecting the cult were Heaven-Destroying Jiangshi.
Former Blood Cult protectors who had learned destruction arts themselves to guard the cult even after death, becoming Dark Blood Jiangshi.
Because they learned one additional special martial art to maximize their power when becoming Dark Blood Jiangshi through destruction arts.
The power of Heaven-Destroying Jiangshi was more than enough to face ten Dark Blood Jiangshi simultaneously.
The reason this was possible was because they were jiangshi that retained will and intelligence.
The special martial arts learned in addition to blood arts to become jiangshi made this possible.
Ten Dark Blood Jiangshi and one Heaven-Destroying Jiangshi.
This force was.
A force that even former Sect Leader Gae Hong-cheon would have had to fight prepared to die to completely annihilate.
That monster bastard.
Had accomplished that on that day.
And in perfect condition too.
He had become even stronger than when the Sect Leader died in battle.
“That bastard monster I want to tear apart.”
However.
Even then, he had failed to find them hiding underground.
He had vented his rage by smashing the headquarters buildings and devastating them.
Now they had hidden in even deeper underground.
And this time too, he had failed to find them.
Even so.
It was humiliating.
To survive.
Hiding underground to avoid just one bastard.
Il-no’s worries deepened.
‘There aren’t enough Dark Blood Jiangshi.’
It couldn’t be helped.
Dark Blood Jiangshi were entities that had learned destruction arts and reached the extreme level before becoming jiangshi.
After the Great Murim War.
The secret manuals of destruction arts spread throughout the world had mostly disappeared.
There were no new people becoming Dark Blood Jiangshi.
The Dark Blood Jiangshi of Sanwol Demon Forest were decreasing.
In the midst of this, they had gained the precious force of a Dark Blood Jiangshi becoming a Beheaded Jiangshi.
But that bastard Ha Mu-baek had eliminated it.
‘Should I create them by force?’
If it was the secret manual of destruction arts, Blood Cult still had them.
The research results to escape that curse had also returned to Blood Cult.
Sip-ro had suffered for it.
However.
Since Dark Blood Jiangshi became stronger entities the stronger the martial arts learned before becoming jiangshi.
Having just anyone learn destruction arts was meaningless.
If the learner was stupid, they couldn’t even reach the extreme level.
‘Field training, was it?’
The proposal Yeon Ja-gyeong had conveyed.
Il-no recalled it.
Not simply Death Jiangshi or Blood Jiangshi.
This might be an opportunity to increase the number of Dark Blood Jiangshi.
Since they just need to capture them alive without killing them.
‘I hope they send many promising ones.’
Il-no organized his thoughts as he set down the report.
“Where are the remaining Myeolcheon Jiangshi…”
The Protectors of the previous generation.
Those who were also his ancestors.
Even for Blood Cult Protectors, becoming a jiangshi after death was not an easy decision to make.
There were those who wished to have eternal rest after death.
That’s why Myeolcheon Jiangshi were precious.
The Blood Cult only had a few of them.
Even during that fierce war with the Jeongcheon Alliance, Gae Hong-cheon did not bring out the Myeolcheon Jiangshi.
They were the cult’s guardian jiangshi.
They were kept for the final moment to protect the cult.
One of them had been defeated by Ha Mu-baek while trying to protect the sacred ground.
The original place where the Myeolcheon Jiangshi were stored.
He headed deep underground.
The timing of the field training that Yeon Ja-gyeong had informed him about.
To match that timing, he needed to send one Myeolcheon Jiangshi to Sanwol Demon Forest in advance.
“Ha Mu-baek. That bastard won’t be coming back for a while.”
Weren’t they called the Jamryong Corps and Waryong Corps?
“It would be good to gradually expand our influence from the south to the entire Sanwol Demon Forest.”
Muttering this, Il-no moved his steps.
Yeon Ja-gyeong had given Il-no much information, but there was one thing he hadn’t shared.
It was about Ha Mu-baek’s sister.
The fact that she would soon complete her training at Gyoryong Hall and be assigned to Sanwol Demon Forest.
***
A cave filled with thick darkness.
Gae Se-ak was still here, enveloped in darkness.
Two eyes gleaming jet black.
“Darkness.”
Gae Se-ak calmly muttered just two syllables.
His voice was rough and cracked, as if it had been who knows how long since he had entered this cave and spoken.
A voice that seemed like he hadn’t used his vocal cords in a very long time.
Nevertheless, his face was full of dissatisfaction.
Because his desire for strength had not yet been satisfied.
“Not enough.”
He greedily consumed darkness again and again.
Even thicker darkness came.
Yet it was still not enough.
This much was insufficient to bring death to everyone in the world at once.
He needed more darkness.
He needed more power.
Then.
In the deep, deep, thick, thick darkness.
He felt an alien energy.
Though he had come here drawn by darkness.
A power different from darkness.
Gae Se-ak’s senses turned toward that place.
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