The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 413
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Chapter 413. Not Completely Identical
Full Moon Harmonious Mind Technique, Ten Thousand Flowers Moon Fall Sword Dance.
One mind technique and one sword technique.
From these two, he felt that power.
A power that penetrated both simultaneously.
One that was all too familiar to Ha Mu-baek.
That’s why he called it coincidental.
Ever since meeting Hyeon-hwang.
Such powers had been continuously felt.
Ha Mu-baek fell into slight confusion.
‘Weren’t the fragments supposed to exist as only one each?’
The fragments that were said to be split from Taecho into six pieces.
According to the information Ha Mu-baek had gathered so far, he had completely obtained three of them.
He thought that meant those three had disappeared from the world.
But that wasn’t the case.
Here.
One of what he had obtained was sleeping within martial arts.
Half in the mind technique, half in the sword dance.
So that if one mastered both the mind technique and sword dance to perfection, they could obtain one complete whole.
‘Yeon Baek-un was quite perceptive to recognize such martial arts.’
The more serious Ha Mu-baek’s expression became, the more roughly Yeon Ha-min’s heart pounded.
Though it was unlikely, she feared he might give a negative answer.
‘Martial arts containing complete Yeoui.’
Ha Mu-baek was quite surprised.
Never.
He hadn’t even thought that another martial art containing the profound mysteries of Yeoui would exist.
‘Not completely identical.’
Looking carefully, he could see the differences.
It seemed like the Yeoui of Mugeuk Yeoui Mind Technique and Mugeuk Yeoui Eight Severing Sword Sea had undergone one more transformation.
That transformation was.
‘The Abyss. Whether it exists or not.’
Though he couldn’t be completely certain, there was a high probability the Abyss would tempt.
Ten Thousand Flowers Moon Fall Sword Dance.
Unlike Mugeuk Yeoui Eight Severing Sword Sea, it seemed like the Abyss would open its eyes when that realm reached its peak.
He felt that sensation from the energy contained within the incantation.
‘The fragments of Taecho. There might be far more than I thought.’
He had thought only six existed in all under heaven.
But they might have changed names and forms through different martial arts, seeping into every corner of the world.
Only their true identity remained unknown.
Lost in deep thought and momentarily forgetting Yeon Ha-min’s presence, Ha Mu-baek lifted his gaze from the secret manual and looked at her.
She was looking at Ha Mu-baek with a thoroughly tense expression.
“It’s excellent martial arts.”
Yeon Ha-min smiled slightly at Ha Mu-baek’s acknowledgment.
“I’ll check on you from time to time.”
Her smile deepened.
“Before that, let me give you one warning.”
Yeon Ha-min nodded slightly.
“When you master this martial art proficiently and enter a high realm. Perhaps a being that speaks to you might appear in your mental image.”
It was incomprehensible words.
Mental image.
A being that speaks in one’s mental image.
It was still a story difficult to accept at her level of understanding.
“When you reach such a realm, you’ll naturally come to know. But you must never fall for the temptations of the being that speaks to you. It is merely a heart demon.”
At the mention of heart demon, Yeon Ha-min nodded with a stern expression.
She knew well how dangerous heart demons were in martial arts cultivation.
“Good.”
Ha Mu-baek nodded.
“Then we’ll start tomorrow. You should go in and rest too. It’s gotten far too late.”
The time Ha Mu-baek spent examining the secret manual was roughly two hours.
Before they knew it, night was deepening toward the hour of the Rat.
Originally, Ha Mu-baek had come here to make Yeon Ha-min go inside.
But sensing an unexpected presence in the secret manual had made it even later.
“Taking proper rest is also part of training.”
Leaving those words, Ha Mu-baek departed.
The training ground left alone.
Yeon Ha-min couldn’t help but let out a small laugh.
Taking proper rest is also part of training.
If it were another instructor, perhaps.
But hearing such words from Ha Mu-baek made her laugh without realizing it.
Ha Mu-baek was the instructor who drove them the most harshly.
Of course, Jigunwi Instructor was no less demanding.
‘Or not?’
Thinking about it, Ha Mu-baek had never trained them until this late hour.
No, enduring his training until this time would be impossible.
Before that, they would collapse from exhaustion and faint in the dormitory.
If that could also be called rest.
Then the instructor certainly did ensure they took proper rest.
‘Still, I should wash up, shouldn’t I?’
She thought while looking at her training clothes soaked with sweat.
The night breeze was cold.
The soaked sweat flew away in the wind, and she felt a chill in her body.
Yeon Ha-min hurried her steps toward Yeonryong Lodge.
***
Around lunchtime.
The four Damryong Pavilions scattered throughout Gyoryong Hall.
In front of those places.
A small commotion arose among the cadets of Jamryong Corps, Waryong Corps, and Maengryong Corps.
It was inevitable.
Because of what was written on the large notice posted on the wall.
The content was.
That the Eastern Tournament would be moved up by two weeks.
Which meant.
It wasn’t the winter solstice, but the seventh day of the twelfth month when the Winter Competition would be held.
And the reason was written below.
“Field training? What’s that?”
A Jamryong Corps cadet tilted his head in confusion.
“So we’re supposed to experience the field directly during the break period? Then what about the break?”
A Waryong Corps cadet frowned.
“If the training location is Bongma Corps, wouldn’t that be really something?”
A worried Jamryong Corps cadet.
Amid all their commotion, the Maengryong Corps cadets remained calm.
Because they were excluded from the field training.
And for good reason, since their destination was already decided.
The name would remain the same as Maengryong Corps.
The Maengryong Corps cadets’ interest lay elsewhere.
Specifically, the Winter Competition moved up by two weeks.
There was anticipation about whether a winner would emerge from Maengryong Corps again this time.
They knew well from training together.
How strong the second-year Seventh Group cadets of Maengryong Corps were.
They were skilled enough to defeat Jamryong Corps and Waryong Corps and win the Winter Competition.
They were simply proud that such people belonged to the same Maengryong Corps as them.
“Are you going to participate in the Winter Competition?”
Ju U-myeong looked at Baek Ri-pyeong and asked.
The previous tournament winner was asking the runner-up.
Baek Ri-pyeong shrugged his shoulders.
Honestly, he wasn’t sure.
He wondered if it would be meaningful.
“I’d really like you to participate.”
Then Namgung Hu’s voice came from behind them.
“I hope you won’t commit the outrage of winning twice and then not participating this time.”
Namgung Hu said with a bright smile.
His attitude was different.
He looked full of confidence.
It must be confidence with good reason.
“It might be better to just end it with two wins, Pyeong.”
Then Dang Jin-san interjected.
His face was full of mischief.
“We have to prepare for something more important than the Winter Competition.”
However, his following words made sense.
The fact that the Winter Competition was moved up meant their departure for Sanwol Demon Forest might also be moved up.
“I’m going to participate.”
It was Dan Mok Un-rae.
He gripped his sword hilt tightly.
Last year, the only martial arts he had learned were the Three Talents Art and shield techniques.
But now it was different.
He wanted to directly test how good his swordsmanship was.
“Me too.”
It seemed Yeon Ha-min felt the same way.
She briefly expressed her intention to participate.
A smile appeared on Namgung Hu’s lips.
It was a smile born from thinking that since two out of seven had said they would participate, most of the others would probably participate too.
Ju U-myeong nodded.
“I should participate too.”
Baek Ri-pyeong also decided to participate.
“I won’t do it.”
Dang Jin-san shook his head.
“I think last year’s experience was enough.”
Dang Jin-san smiled slightly.
He objectively evaluated his abilities.
Although he had become incomparably stronger than last year.
His comrades had become ridiculously stronger than someone like him.
“I, I want to try participating too.”
It was Ha Seol-ran.
“Last year it ended when I didn’t even know what was happening… I was disappointed.”
She clenched her fist with a determined expression.
“I’m not going to participate either.”
It was Nak U-jin.
The only one among them who was still learning only the Three Talents Art and meditation techniques.
Even though Dan Mok Un-rae and Yeon Ha-min had acquired new martial arts.
He had not.
He thought the result would be obvious if he participated.
Of course, he had also become much stronger.
Five out of seven.
“Well, my sister also said she wouldn’t participate this time.”
Namgung Hu said that.
The gazes of the six people who had decided to participate, including Namgung Hu, met in midair.
A deep smile appeared on Namgung Hu’s lips.
“Then I’ll see you at the Winter Competition.”
“Aren’t you going to come watch when we train with the jiangshi?”
Dang Jin-san shouted toward Namgung Hu, who was about to leave.
Although he had been focusing solely on internal energy cultivation.
He thought Namgung Hu would come again when they resumed practical training with the jiangshi.
Namgung Hu hesitated at Dang Jin-san’s question.
“Well, that’s one thing, and the Winter Competition is another.”
Leaving that answer, Namgung Hu hurriedly disappeared.
“Come on, let’s quickly eat and get energized for more training.”
Namgung Hu had been coming out of Damryong Pavilion, while they had seen the notice board on their way in.
After finishing lunch.
All the Maengryong Corps cadets gathered at the Great Training Ground were absorbed in circulating their energy.
The mental cultivation method that everyone except a few from Seventh Group and some first-year cadets who had entered Maengryong Corps despite having sects was practicing.
Was ultimately the Three Talents Mental Method.
It was a mental method with an incredibly slow speed of building internal energy.
However, the medicinal decoction Ha Mu-baek had given them, the Half-Measure Blue Forest Decoction, was showing its effects, and an unbelievable amount of internal energy for something built with the Three Talents Mental Method was accumulating layer by layer in their dantians.
Ha Mu-baek was using his Infinite Bright Wheel Eyes to observe the cadets’ internal energy states.
His gaze stopped at Seventh Group.
“Hmm.”
A low murmur.
With even Yeon Ha-min acquiring new martial arts, now only Nak U-jin among them was practicing only the Three Talents Mental Method.
‘What should I do with that guy…’
A new concern arose.
The Full Moon Harmony Mental Method.
Befitting a mental method imbued with feminine energy, its effects were amazing.
Despite Yeon Ha-min’s still low level, her internal energy improvement speed was tremendously fast.
In the end, Nak U-jin was inevitably falling behind alone.
Even so.
It was awkward for Ha Mu-baek to give him a suitable internal energy mental method.
There were things that bothered him.
Since he hadn’t confirmed that part yet.
Moreover, Ha Mu-baek’s current position was instructor of Maengryong Corps 7th Group and chief instructor of Maengryong Corps.
It was a position that had to oversee all Maengryong Corps cadets.
He couldn’t teach a different mind technique to Nak U-jin alone.
That could be discrimination against other Maengryong Corps cadets.
There was no problem responding when they sought advice or asked for teachings about martial arts they had acquired.
But he couldn’t take the initiative to teach different martial arts.
Since they weren’t disciples of his sect either.
About two hundred Maengryong Corps cadets.
Certainly, talent was being divided even among them.
Even though they learned the same mind technique and took the same medicinal decoctions.
The amount of internal energy they accumulated was different.
That was a difference that came from different aptitudes.
‘There are some guys getting close to the wall.’
Ha Mu-baek’s gaze stopped briefly on several cadets.
The first to catch Ha Mu-baek’s attention.
‘Was it Cho Mu-ha?’
He had seen him together with the 7th Group guys several times.
Despite being a first-year cadet, his progress was the fastest.
‘That guy will make it soon if I guide him just a little.’
He was undoubtedly a guy with outstanding talent.
Originally, he was someone who had come after building a solid foundation at his sect, and his internal energy mental method was also from his own sect, not the Three Talents Heart Method.
In many ways, he had no choice but to be the most excellent.
Among the second-year cadets, there were also those with talent comparable to Cho Mu-ha.
Though the absolute amount of internal energy was lacking compared to Cho Mu-ha due to the limitations of their internal energy mental method.
One female cadet with an ordinary appearance.
One male cadet with a large build.
One male cadet with a small and agile appearance.
These three people caught Ha Mu-baek’s attention.
They were all people who didn’t have much time left before going to Sanwol Demon Forest.
At this level.
Within a few days, they might be able to enter the realm of sword qi.
Of course, he would have to guide them that way.
And so another day came to an end with the arrival of night.
When the designated time ended, the cadets finished their energy circulation.
“From tomorrow, we’ll combine energy circulation with sparring.”
Ha Mu-baek disappeared from the platform with those words.
After Ha Mu-baek left, no cadet left their spot.
They just sat cross-legged again and entered energy circulation.
They were currently completely absorbed in the joy of increasing internal energy.
Among them.
One person.
Only Yeon Ha-min stopped her energy circulation and stood up.
Then she headed to the 7th Squad Training Ground.
It was time to cultivate her sword technique.
Energy circulation was important, but achieving the Ten Thousand Flowers Moon Fall Sword Dance was also important.
While she was skipping dinner and swinging her sword like that.
Ha Mu-baek appeared.
He was frowning.
“Eating well is also cultivation.”
It was a remark pointing out that she had skipped dinner.
At the same time, his gaze turned toward the Great Training Ground.
“Those guys are the same. Tsk.”
Ha Mu-baek clicked his tongue as if displeased.
“I’ll have to give them proper notice starting tomorrow.”
With those words, Ha Mu-baek looked at Yeon Ha-min.
“Show me.”
Yeon Ha-min straightened her sword again, which she had stopped when Ha Mu-baek appeared.
Her sword began to move slowly from the ready stance.
Yeon Ha-min’s eyes sparkled with anticipation for Ha Mu-baek’s teachings.
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