The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 404

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Chapter 404. We Won’t Be Like That, Right?

 

 

 

 

 

The place Gae Se-ak’s senses had found.

 

It was one wall of the cave.

 

It was a power he couldn’t feel before.

 

A power that became perceptible after devouring the darkness to some extent.

 

“What is this?”

 

A rough voice like scraping metal flowed out again.

 

And when he lightly waved his hand.

 

Swoooosh.

 

The darkness dug through the earth.

 

What was revealed was something completely unexpected.

 

Thick tree roots.

 

A strange power was felt from there.

 

‘What on earth is this.’

 

Could such thick tree roots exist in such a deep place?

 

This question came to mind first.

 

And when he searched his memory.

 

He remembered the giant tree Il-no had shown him.

 

Was it called a thousand-year-old giant tree?

 

A giant tree that had established its place here even before the Blood Cult came.

 

So when they settled on this land hundreds of years ago, they left that giant tree as it was.

 

‘Are these its roots?’

 

Still, questions remained.

 

No matter how much it was the root of a giant tree that had lived for a thousand years, could it reach down to such depths?

 

Thump! Thump! Thump!

 

Boom! Boom! Boom!

 

At that moment.

 

Gae Se-ak’s heart, who had been continuously examining the tree roots, began to beat roughly.

 

More precisely, the darkness that Gae Se-ak had greedily devoured was pounding his heart roughly.

 

Gae Se-ak frowned.

 

Because he felt the emotion of the darkness pounding his heart.

 

Hostility.

 

Mortal enemy.

 

Irreconcilable foe.

 

The kind of hostility one would show when meeting such an existence swept through Gae Se-ak’s entire body.

 

His eyes flashed.

 

“Hooh?”

 

Such an intense reaction.

 

Gae Se-ak already knew well how strong the power of this darkness he was devouring was.

 

Such mighty power was showing this kind of reaction?

 

Then surely there must be power in those roots that could rival the darkness he had consumed.

 

“I wonder what kind of power it could be?”

 

The rough voice scraping like metal contained ecstasy.

 

Gae Se-ak’s pitch-black eyes gleamed with desire.

 

 

 

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The Maengryong Corps was truly dedicated to training.

 

They were also dedicated to energy circulation.

 

They focused on energy circulation, saving time from sleeping and eating.

 

They had no choice but to do so.

 

After Ha Mu-baek corrected the paths of their Internal Energy.

 

They could feel their Internal Energy increasing.

 

Feeling Internal Energy accumulating at more than twice the speed compared to before, it was like a drug and they couldn’t stop circulating energy.

 

Even so, the limits of the Three Talents Heart Method were clear.

 

But it was twice as fast as before.

 

Then.

 

Just as the Instructor had boasted.

 

Wouldn’t everyone be able to use Sword Qi by the time they graduated from Gyoryong Hall?

 

This thought occurred to them.

 

That’s why they devoted themselves even more passionately.

 

“They’re desperate.”

 

Wi Ji-gun, still transformed as Ji Gun-wi, muttered while watching that scene from beside Ha Mu-baek.

 

“Because they’re earnest.”

 

Ha Mu-baek answered calmly.

 

Didn’t he also possess that earnestness?

 

Though the type was different from the earnestness the Maengryong Corps Cadets currently had.

 

“Even so. The limits of martial arts clearly exist. If those children had a little more time, perhaps. But it’s too late.”

 

Since an Energy Barrier was set up, the surrounding people couldn’t know what conversation the two were having.

 

Han Seol-bing tilted her head at the sight of the two suddenly setting up an Energy Barrier and conversing, but turned her gaze back to the Cadets.

 

She had faith in Ha Mu-baek that there must be a reason for his actions.

 

Instead, she carefully watched to see if anyone was falling into Qi Deviation during energy circulation or showing strange reactions.

 

Though falling into Qi Deviation with the Three Talents Heart Method was impossible.

 

Still, there could be unexpected situations.

 

Han Seol-bing didn’t slow her watchful gaze over the Cadets.

 

“I know.”

 

Ha Mu-baek nodded slightly while acknowledging Wi Ji-gun’s point.

 

“Probably about half of them won’t reach the level of Sword Qi.”

 

They were people with varying talents.

 

No, since they were randomly gathered people, most were ordinary talents.

 

Ha Mu-baek and Wi Ji-gun were remarkable for developing such people to this extent.

 

“Then?”

 

Though he could guess what Ha Mu-baek would do, he still asked.

 

“….”

 

Ha Mu-baek gazed silently at the Maengryong Corps Cadets who were concentrating on energy circulation.

 

And he briefly looked at the Seventh Group Cadets.

 

They too were concentrating on energy circulation.

 

Since they had taken the Infinite Pill, they were definitely different.

 

“Are you thinking of feeding that Half-Quantity Pill to all those children?”

 

The elixir Ha Mu-baek had given to the Waryong Corps first-year Twentieth Group.

 

It tasted more terrible than the Infinite Pill, but its efficacy was slightly less than half of the Infinite Pill.

 

Ha Mu-baek shook his head.

 

“I don’t have that quantity.”

 

Even excluding the Seventh Group members, it was a large group of one hundred and ninety people.

 

There was no way they had that many Banryang Pills, let alone Muryang Pills.

 

“Still, you’re thinking of using medicine, right?”

 

At Wi Ji-gun’s question, Ha Mu-baek nodded slightly.

 

“I think we should.”

 

“You’re thinking of using a decoction, I see.”

 

He spoke as if he had guessed Ha Mu-baek’s thoughts.

 

“Yes.”

 

At the affirmative answer that came back, Wi Ji-gun crossed his arms and fell into thought.

 

“Hmm. Nearly two hundred people…”

 

If it’s a decoction to feed that many people.

 

How much medicinal ingredients would be needed.

 

“I’m not planning to use Yuryang Cheongrin Decoction as is.”

 

“Then you mean to use about the same medicinal ingredients that went into the Banryang Pills you made?”

 

“That’s right.”

 

“Then it should be called Banryang Cheongrin Decoction.”

 

Wi Ji-gun, who had clearly grasped what Ha Mu-baek intended, said.

 

Yuryang Cheongrin Decoction.

 

It’s an essential decoction for making Muryang Pills.

 

After adding additional medicinal ingredients to this decoction and boiling it down repeatedly to make it into a paste form, then making it into pill form – that’s the Muryang Pill.

 

“What ingredients are being left out?”

 

At Wi Ji-gun’s question, Ha Mu-baek mentioned several medicinal ingredients.

 

“With that much… Hmm. You’re planning to go to Cheongran Island.”

 

Cheongran Island, which had been their hideaway.

 

There was a medicinal storage there.

 

Medicinal ingredients gathered to treat Ha Seol-ran and to make the sect’s secret elixirs.

 

When they left, most had been moved to the underground storage.

 

A considerable portion of the medicinal ingredients had been used, so what remained was different from before.

 

However.

 

For the level of medicinal ingredients Ha Mu-baek had just mentioned, there was a sufficient amount.

 

Enough to feed all the Maengryong Corps Cadets.

 

However.

 

Those medicinal ingredients belonged to Wi Ji-gun, not Ha Mu-baek.

 

In the end, his permission was needed.

 

Wi Ji-gun looked at the Maengryong Corps Cadets who were earnestly absorbed in their energy circulation meditation.

 

His gaze finally stopped on Ha Seol-ran.

 

“Those children will all have to go to Sanwol Demon Forest together eventually. As Ran-i’s comrades. It’s good if comrades are strong. They’ll be much more helpful. Go ahead and use them.”

 

“Thank you.”

 

Ha Mu-baek spoke with sincerity.

 

Because there were eyes watching around them, he didn’t bow his head.

 

Since Wi Ji-gun’s current appearance was that of Ji Gun-wi, it would look strange to anyone watching.

 

Actually.

 

The biggest reason Ha Mu-baek wanted to make the Maengryong Corps Cadets stronger was contained in what Wi Ji-gun had just said.

 

If comrades are strong, they become a great help.

 

In the end, it was all for Ha Seol-ran.

 

“I’ll ask for your help.”

 

“Yes. You’ll be busy, so hurry up. It’ll be difficult, but work hard.”

 

Ha Mu-baek’s figure disappeared in an instant.

 

He was immediately running toward Dongting Lake using his lightness skill.

 

Since it wasn’t far.

 

If he deployed Lightning Ten Thousand Li Movement to its ultimate achievement, he would arrive in just a few hours.

 

Whoosh!

 

A strong wind swept through the Great Training Ground.

 

Ha Mu-baek, who had rushed to Cheongran Island at such speed, gathered the necessary medicinal ingredients from the underground storage.

 

He took out seventy percent of the remaining medicinal ingredients.

 

He loaded them on a boat and rented a cart to carry them.

 

Thus Ha Mu-baek returned in just one day.

 

Then he piled up the medicinal ingredients in heaps on one side of the Great Training Ground.

 

And brought countless decoction pots.

 

Though they felt curious about this sight.

 

The Maengryong Corps Cadets had no energy to pay attention to it.

 

Because of Ji Gun-wi’s training that was driving them hard.

 

He pushed them so viciously that they thought it would be better to face Poison Jiangshi or Blood Jiangshi instead.

 

After that came energy circulation.

 

With the endless repetition of training and energy circulation.

 

Though they might feel curious about Ha Mu-baek’s actions, there was no one who could observe them.

 

When Ha Mu-baek, having finished all preparations, waved his hand, the medicinal ingredients floated up and flew over.

 

They were finely cut by his lightly swinging sword and flowed into the decoction pots.

 

There was no need for a chopping block to cut the ingredients.

 

When he lightly waved his hand, the water he had drawn shot up into the air and entered the decoction pots.

 

When he waved his hand again.

 

Enormous flames rose up and embraced the countless decoction pots.

 

In the blazing flames, the water and medicinal ingredients in the decoction pots quickly began to boil.

 

The one carefully observing this scene was Han Seol-bing.

 

Since some medicinal ingredients disappeared in a truly instant.

 

She couldn’t identify all the medicinal ingredients either, and the combination was even more unknowable.

 

Even though he was making the decoction in this open Great Training Ground, she couldn’t figure out the preparation method.

 

Because he had such confidence, Ha Mu-baek was making the decoction so casually like this.

 

How much time had passed.

 

The smell of the decoction began to waft up from the decoction pots.

 

The first to smell it was Han Seol-bing, who was observing nearby.

 

“Ugh?”

 

Startled by the terrible smell, she hurriedly stepped back.

 

Ha Mu-baek was still looking at the decoction pots with an expressionless face.

 

No, seeing how the corners of his eyes were trembling finely.

 

He too was suffering from the terrible smell just the same.

 

At this sight, Han Seol-bing tilted her head.

 

‘What a terrible person. But why is he enduring it?’

 

Han Seol-bing well knew that Ha Mu-baek had pressure point techniques that could paralyze human senses.

 

If he pressed the pressure points that paralyze the sense of smell on himself.

 

He wouldn’t have to endure this terrible smell.

 

But Ha Mu-baek didn’t do that.

 

He just forcibly endured it while looking at the decoction pots.

 

‘Still terrible.’

 

Though he felt like frowning, he was enduring with superhuman patience.

 

He wanted to paralyze his own sense of smell right away, but he couldn’t.

 

Because he could tell how complete the decoction was from this terrible smell.

 

Originally, the sense of smell is very vulnerable to fatigue.

 

The nose quickly adapts to smells.

 

But he couldn’t adapt to this smell at all.

 

The reason was simple.

 

Because the closer the herbal medicine came to completion, the more terrible its stench became.

 

During the process of reducing and concentrating the completed herbal medicine, that smell transformed into taste.

 

The pills completed this way were the Half-Dose Pill and the Muryangwan.

 

The Half-Dose Pill had a far more terrible smell and taste.

 

That smell scattered in the wind blowing from all directions, becoming faint as it spread widely.

 

‘It’s fortunate that this is only to this extent because it’s the Great Training Ground.’

 

The reason for brewing herbal medicine in the spacious Great Training Ground.

 

It was precisely because of this smell.

 

When it was a small amount, he could use internal energy to create wind and blow it far away strongly, erasing this stench so people nearby wouldn’t notice it.

 

But the amount needed to feed two hundred people simultaneously was different.

 

Even when he created wind, it remained faintly and spread in all directions.

 

The first to react were naturally the Maengryong Corps cadets.

 

At the stench that suddenly assaulted their sense of smell.

 

Some had no choice but to stop their energy circulation.

 

Otherwise, it would be shocking enough to cause qi deviation.

 

One by one they stopped their energy circulation, and soon all the Maengryong Corps cadets opened their eyes and grabbed their noses.

 

With such behavior, the Jigunwi Instructor would normally burst out with angry shouts immediately.

 

But for some reason, he was quietly watching that scene.

 

He too was in a situation where he could smell this stench.

 

But having already blocked his own sense of smell after seeing Ha Mu-baek preparing medicinal herbs.

 

Even so, knowing what kind of suffering the cadets must be experiencing.

 

He didn’t reprimand them for stopping their energy circulation.

 

“What on earth… is the instructor making?”

 

Dang Jin-san said while looking at Ha Mu-baek with eyes full of fear.

 

To think he would feel such emotions again after that terrible taste from that day.

 

“If it’s this terrible a stench from here… what about the instructor over there…?”

 

Dan Mok Un-rae muttered with a disgusted expression.

 

“Didn’t he paralyze his sense of smell? Like he did with taste?”

 

Nak U-jin said.

 

Ha Seol-ran recalled the story of how Ha Mu-baek had paralyzed her sense of taste before she ate the Muryangwan.

 

“No. The corners of his eyes are twitching.”

 

Yeon Ha-min’s keen eye didn’t miss Ha Mu-baek’s condition.

 

Soon they looked around at the Maengryong Corps cadets who were grabbing their noses.

 

“It won’t be us, right?”

 

Baek Ri-pyeong muttered with an expression slightly filled with fear.

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