The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 405

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Chapter 405. Eat

 

 

 

 

 

The red burning flames soon turned blue.

 

Ha Mu-baek had changed the operation of his internal energy.

 

When he returned to Cheongran Island, he was using the new refinement method he had learned from his master.

 

In that process, Ha Mu-baek’s internal energy gently seeped into the medicine pot.

 

If he had been refining pills, he would have directly injected internal energy into the furnace when it reached the thick paste form.

 

But this was not pill refinement; it was the process of brewing medicine in a medicine pot.

 

So he did not go that far.

 

He simply used flames infused with internal energy to gently push his internal energy into the medicine pot.

 

In fact, the refinement of the Infinite Pill involves the process of changing from the liquid form called Flowing Azure Forest Decoction to paste form, then to pill form, all done at once inside the furnace.

 

There was no need to make the medicine separately like this.

 

The medicine was a method Ha Mu-baek chose because he could not give Infinite Pills or Half-measure Pills to all of them.

 

Time passed.

 

The medicine was completed.

 

A stench so terrible that one would doubt whether it could exist in the mortal world.

 

This smell announced its completion.

 

Even Ha Mu-baek frowned when it reached this level.

 

He had stood some distance away from the medicine pot and brewed the medicine using Void Grasping and flames.

 

But since he had to check the smell, he maintained a certain distance.

 

The stench that pierced his nose was terrible.

 

This was also Ha Mu-baek’s first time making enough for two hundred people at once.

 

So this was a stench he was experiencing for the first time too.

 

Since it was completed, he now checked his surroundings.

 

The instructors, including Han Seol-bing, had already left the Great Training Ground.

 

She had led them away.

 

Because the stench was unbearable.

 

Ji Gun-wi still stood on the platform with an expressionless face.

 

Ha Mu-baek nodded slightly.

 

Because he knew why his master could remain so calm.

 

A pressure point technique that could selectively paralyze human senses.

 

From whom would Ha Mu-baek have learned that?

 

From his master Wi Ji-gun, of course.

 

Right now, Wi Ji-gun had paralyzed his own sense of smell.

 

He surveyed the cadets.

 

They had already grabbed their noses and retreated to the edges of the Great Training Ground.

 

It happened to be break time.

 

Moreover, proper training would be impossible with such a stench resonating.

 

The cadets were looking at the medicine pot with expressions of disbelief.

 

If the stench had come from somewhere else, it would have been different.

 

But it was coming from the medicine pot.

 

And what would be in a medicine pot?

 

Medicine.

 

Medicine.

 

Medicine meant to be consumed.

 

The one brewing it was their chief instructor.

 

And the chief instructor would have no reason to personally brew medicine for mere cadets.

 

With such thoughts, the cadets desperately denied it was for them, covering their noses and constantly glancing at the source of the stench.

 

On the other hand, the experienced Seventh Group cadets were looking at Ha Mu-baek with faces full of fear.

 

Holding onto the vague hope that it wouldn’t be for them this time.

 

And for good reason.

 

They had already taken the Infinite Pill and had no problems with their internal energy.

 

Ha Mu-baek took in their appearances filled with various emotions.

 

When his gaze reached Ha Seol-ran, his expression twitched slightly.

 

Ha Seol-ran was also frowning at the stench, but she was different from the others.

 

She was only pretending to frown at the stench; right now she couldn’t smell it.

 

Her expression had only changed slightly from when the stench first began to spread.

 

The reason was obvious.

 

It must be his master on the platform.

 

He had probably secretly pressed Seol-ran’s pressure points.

 

Ha Mu-baek smoothly turned his head and pretended not to notice.

 

Seol-ran was also deliberately contorting her expression, not wanting to reveal that she alone couldn’t smell the stench.

 

In a way, it was deceiving her comrades.

 

But the fact that Ha Seol-ran would go to such lengths meant the stench was truly terrible.

 

Ha Mu-baek headed toward the platform.

 

Ji Gun-wi stepped aside for him.

 

People had gathered around the Great Training Ground, but they dared not approach closely.

 

They were people who had arrived seeking the source of the terrible smell that suddenly resonated faintly throughout Gyoryong Hall.

 

As they got closer, the smell became more intense, so they dared not come any closer and only confirmed its source.

 

Ha Mu-baek looked at the cadets.

 

“It’s a medicine called Half-measure Azure Forest Decoction.”

 

The moment Ha Mu-baek spoke briefly.

 

Despair colored the cadets’ faces.

 

If it were medicine brewed for other purposes, there would be no reason to tell them its name.

 

“Azure Forest , meaning blue flames, refers to internal energy. It’s medicine that will enhance your internal energy.”

 

In other words, it was a spiritual medicine.

 

Spiritual medicine.

 

The general term used in Gangho for medicine that increases internal energy.

 

Among its types, there were some that miraculously increased internal energy equivalent to over a hundred years of cultivation, and others that only increased internal energy equivalent to about a year.

 

However, since internal energy increased just by taking the medicine, they were all called spiritual medicines.

 

Ha Mu-baek was now telling the Maengryong Corps, a collection of people of unknown status and identity, that he would give them spiritual medicine.

 

Gyoryong Hall providing spiritual medicine?

 

This was a luxury that even the Jamryong Corps and Waryong Corps didn’t enjoy.

 

Of course, many of them might have taken spiritual medicines from their own families or sects.

 

However.

 

Even with such luxury.

 

Few were rejoicing.

 

Rather, most had fallen into despair.

 

Smelling that stench.

 

It was normal to think it was poison, not spiritual medicine.

 

“Since I made it hastily, its efficacy might not be great.”

 

Ha Mu-baek was speaking more kindly than usual.

 

And for good reason, since it was a stench that made even Ha Mu-baek frown.

 

Whether they knew or not, the cadets had already smelled that stench.

 

So he was consoling them while giving them something good.

 

In fact, even Ha Mu-baek himself wasn’t confident he could readily drink that.

 

The stench wasn’t the end of it.

 

The extremely bizarre taste would be even worse than the stench.

 

Moreover.

 

“So you must take it for at least seven days.”

 

Crash!

 

A thunderbolt struck the cadets’ minds.

 

Taking it.

 

Seven days.

 

Only those two things kept ringing in their ears.

 

When Ha Mu-baek waved his hand, the herbal medicine in the cauldron rose up and was poured in exactly equal amounts into bowls prepared in advance.

 

Soon the bowls floated through the air and settled one by one in front of the cadets.

 

Exactly one bowl for everyone.

 

The Seventh Group was no exception.

 

The Seventh Group’s faces turned pale with disgust.

 

In truth, the internal energy this herbal medicine would increase for them might be minimal.

 

However, even that small improvement would make a big difference in the future.

 

Above all, they were all part of the same Maengryong Corps.

 

If only the Seventh Group were exempted from taking this painful herbal medicine just because they were strong.

 

Jealousy and division regarding their special treatment would arise within the Maengryong Corps.

 

Whatever else might happen, this was something they had to do together.

 

Just having endured this terrible pain together would foster camaraderie.

 

All of this had been taken into consideration.

 

The herbal medicine that had arrived before their eyes.

 

Not a single person dared to drink it rashly.

 

They were simply holding their noses against the terrible stench rising right in front of them.

 

The Seventh Group glanced at Ha Mu-baek with resentful looks.

 

[Pain must be shared with comrades. And it will be effective for you too.]

 

Ha Mu-baek’s cold telepathic message echoed in the minds of all the Seventh Group members.

 

“It’s herbal medicine that increases internal energy. It’s good for your body. I’ve explained this much. Drink it.”

 

Ha Mu-baek spoke in a low voice toward the hesitating cadets.

 

That voice, carried by internal energy and reaching the cadets’ ears, was incredibly heavy.

 

Even so, at the moment when no one was moving.

 

The first to move was.

 

Yeon Ha-min.

 

She quickly picked up the bowl, slightly lifted her veil, and drank all the herbal medicine at once.

 

Her expression was so bizarrely contorted that her beauty couldn’t even be perceived.

 

Everyone was startled by her action.

 

No one had expected that she would be the first to move.

 

Yeon Ha-min had emptied all the herbal medicine.

 

Not a single drop of herbal medicine fell from the upturned bowl.

 

And Yeon Ha-min immediately began circulating her energy.

 

Her face still contorted.

 

‘Th-th-this… this is…’

 

Her thoughts wouldn’t connect. Even so, she tried to force herself to circulate her energy.

 

The Infinite Pill.

 

She had wondered if there could be a more bizarre taste than that.

 

And watching the Waryong Corps 20th Group cadets take the Half-Weight Pill, she thought there might be something even more terrible.

 

But now that she had drunk this thing called Half-Weight Blue Forest Decoction.

 

The world’s worst and most terrible taste existed right here.

 

Even so, she circulated her energy.

 

She knew that the elixirs Ha Mu-baek gave had delayed effects.

 

But if she didn’t at least circulate her energy, she felt like she would vomit right here in front of all these people.

 

The next to move was Ha Seol-ran.

 

She quickly emptied the herbal medicine, and her expression was also bizarrely contorted like Yeon Ha-min’s.

 

There was some awkwardness in her change of expression, but no one noticed this fact.

 

It was because they were still in shock from the sight Yeon Ha-min had shown earlier, leaving them dazed.

 

In that gap, Ha Seol-ran quickly took it and began circulating her energy.

 

It was thanks to Master Wi Ji-gun having pressed acupoints to paralyze not only her sense of smell but also her sense of taste.

 

The next to move was Dan Mok Un-rae.

 

Among the Maengryong Corps Seventh Group, he had the greatest desire for strength.

 

Next was Ju U-myeong.

 

Then Nak U-jin, Baek Ri-pyeong.

 

And finally Dang Jin-san.

 

Once all of the Seventh Group had taken the herbal medicine, the Maengryong Corps cadets finally began taking the herbal medicine.

 

Soon, several cadets who were startled by the taste that exceeded imagination and were about to vomit immediately.

 

“Urgh. Ugh. Ugh.”

 

However, they couldn’t realize that intention.

 

Ha Mu-baek’s telekinesis moved their jaws to close their mouths.

 

The herbal medicine that had lost its way flowed backward through their airways and came out through their nostrils.

 

But Ha Mu-baek controlled even that with telekinesis and forced it down into their stomachs.

 

“If you spit it out, you die.”

 

Ominous words struck the cadets’ ears.

 

Tears, snot, herbal medicine…

 

These three things mixed together and flowed out.

 

Even so, they ended up taking it to the end.

 

It was truly a scene of utter chaos.

 

Who would think these people were taking elixirs?

 

Rather, it was a sight that would make one think they were eating poison and dying.

 

“Wh-what is this…”

 

Namgung Hu climbed up a tall tree and muttered with a dazed face.

 

The Namgung siblings had also been drawn by the terrible stench and come to the Great Training Ground again.

 

They had learned that today’s training for them was internal energy cultivation, not actual sparring with jiangshi, and had left.

 

“That’s supposed to be an elixir…?”

 

Namgung Yu also looked at the disaster unfolding before his eyes with an incredulous face.

 

As he did so, memories from the past came to mind.

 

The pill Ha Mu-baek had given them, saying it was very good for their bodies.

 

Themselves taking it.

 

That terrible taste from back then.

 

It was truly hell.

 

Just as Eun Hwa-ryang had said it was hell.

 

But from what he could see.

 

This seemed even worse.

 

He was certain from watching the Maengryong Corps Seventh Group’s reaction.

 

The fact that those who had already taken the Infinite Pill were reacting like that was proof of it.

 

Suddenly, bowls of herbal medicine appeared before those two people.

 

The two people, startled, turned their gaze toward Ha Mu-baek.

 

“It’s good for your body. Go ahead and eat it. I made a calculation error and have three bowls left.”

 

That was right.

 

The Maengryong Second-Year Group Twenty had only two members.

 

So the total number is one hundred and ninety-seven.

 

But Ha Mu-baek had made two hundred bowls.

 

Then what about the remaining one?

 

Just as they were wrapped in this question.

 

From somewhere.

 

An instructor whose limbs appeared to be bound was floating and entering the training ground.

 

Among the instructors who had evacuated outside the Great Training Ground with Han Seol-bing.

 

It was Pyeong Deok-jo.

 

With his limbs bound by Ha Mu-baek’s internal energy.

 

He regained his freedom upon arriving before Ha Mu-baek.

 

And a pure white bowl floated up before him.

 

“Eat.”

 

Ha Mu-baek spoke briefly and looked at the Namgung siblings.

 

The two people’s faces were colored with regret.

 

Due to unnecessary curiosity.

 

They had brought suffering upon themselves.

 

The two came down from the tree.

 

If they drank it up there, it was obvious they would fall down.

 

They squeezed their eyes shut and gulped down the herbal medicine.

 

Judging by Ha Mu-baek’s gaze, it seemed they couldn’t avoid it.

 

Hell unfolded in their mouths.

 

And it was Avici Hell, said to be the most terrifying and terrible among the one thousand one hundred and twenty-seven hells.

 

“Kugh.”

 

“Urgh.”

 

Groans flowed out naturally.

 

“Six more times left now.”

 

Into the ears of the Namgung siblings, into Pyeong Deok-jo’s ears, into the Maengryong Corps cadets’ ears.

 

Ha Mu-baek’s calm voice reached them.

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