The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 416

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Chapter 416. It’s Fate

 

 

 

 

 

Jeok Ga-ye’s sword moved with increasing sharpness.

 

She didn’t forcibly try to draw up her internal energy.

 

She focused on the movement of her sword.

 

When the sword moved, the internal energy in her dantian followed suit.

 

When she felt this, Jeok Ga-ye gently pushed the internal energy with her will.

 

Then the internal energy smoothly flowed out and circulated throughout her entire body.

 

At that sensation, Jeok Ga-ye felt a thrilling sensation run down her spine.

 

“Focus!”

 

At Ha Mu-baek’s sharp command.

 

Jeok Ga-ye concentrated her mind on the sword again.

 

How long had she been swinging her sword like this?

 

The sword began to emit a faint blue light.

 

Ha Mu-baek’s eyes gleamed with interest as he watched this sight.

 

Though he had judged her to have talent.

 

She was showing abilities beyond Ha Mu-baek’s expectations.

 

An excellent student makes the teacher’s enthusiasm rise.

 

Ha Mu-baek’s excitement also rose as he swung his sword even faster.

 

Jeok Ga-ye was keeping up with those movements.

 

She was concentrating all her mind on the sword.

 

Thanks to this, the training match with Jeok Ga-ye took longer than expected.

 

The cadets who were training with their respective instructors glanced at the match between Jeok Ga-ye and Ha Mu-baek.

 

In fact, the instructors were doing the same.

 

Ha Mu-baek read the atmosphere around them but left it alone.

 

Rather than warning them, he wanted to focus on Jeok Ga-ye.

 

Thus Ha Mu-baek’s sword followed the sword path of the Bright Style, attacking Jeok Ga-ye’s entire body in a direction that guided the dynamic cultivation of the Three Talents Heart Method, and Jeok Ga-ye blocked all those attacks.

 

Of course, by deploying the Bright Style.

 

Now Ha Mu-baek gradually increased the power of his sword.

 

To a degree that would be difficult for Jeok Ga-ye to block at her current level.

 

With enough power to make her crave a stronger sword.

 

Currently, Jeok Ga-ye’s sword was exerting almost its maximum power.

 

The faint blue light it emitted was proof of this.

 

To become stronger from here, she would need to overcome the wall and enter the realm of sword qi.

 

Jeok Ga-ye had already reached the wall of sword qi.

 

The yearning for stronger power and concentration on the sword that transcended limits.

 

If these two things met.

 

Perhaps she could overcome the wall in one go.

 

That’s why Ha Mu-baek was focusing entirely on Jeok Ga-ye.

 

To overcome the wall in one stroke when an unexpected opportunity came.

 

If Jeok Ga-ye overcame the wall today, it would be something not in Ha Mu-baek’s plans.

 

To surpass even Ha Mu-baek’s expectations.

 

So Ha Mu-baek held a strange anticipation.

 

Even Ha Mu-baek became slightly excited at the joy of meeting a talent who could exceed his expectations.

 

“I’m going stronger!”

 

With Ha Mu-baek’s short shout.

 

His sword truly showed power beyond Jeok Ga-ye’s limits as it struck at her.

 

Clang! Clang! Clash!

 

The harsh metallic sound of sword against sword rang out.

 

Jeok Ga-ye was gradually pushed back.

 

Deep footprints were carved into the ground as she continuously stepped backward.

 

‘I need to be stronger. I need to be faster.’

 

Jeok Ga-ye gritted her teeth.

 

At this moment.

 

She didn’t even think about drawing her internal energy to its extreme.

 

She only focused on making her sword stronger, faster.

 

That was all she concentrated on.

 

She swung her sword.

 

The moment internal energy flowed from her dantian through her blood meridians.

 

The moment she gently pushed it toward her sword with her will.

 

Her earnest and desperate intention to become stronger.

 

Squeezed her dantian.

 

Even the internal energy that had been settled deep at the bottom of her dantian.

 

Burst out all at once.

 

The moment it circulated through all the blood meridians in her body and surged into her sword.

 

On Jeok Ga-ye’s sword.

 

A distinct blue light settled.

 

At that moment.

 

All those who had been watching their match out of the corner of their eyes stopped moving in surprise.

 

Only Jeok Ga-ye, as if she knew nothing.

 

Swung her sword with all her might.

 

She concentrated all her mind only on Ha Mu-baek’s sword flying toward her.

 

‘Good.’

 

Ha Mu-baek quietly smiled.

 

Though he had pushed her back to help her overcome the wall.

 

Who would have thought she would really overcome it.

 

And she had overcome it quite properly too.

 

The sword that continued to emit blue light and contained sword qi.

 

Moved fast and strong, blocking Ha Mu-baek’s sword.

 

When Ha Mu-baek didn’t increase his power further from here.

 

She actually counterattacked, gradually recovering the steps she had retreated.

 

Now she was pushing forward.

 

Clang! Clang! Clang! Clash!

 

The Great Training Ground became quiet.

 

Only the sound of Jeok Ga-ye’s sword striking Ha Mu-baek’s sword echoed throughout.

 

Now Ha Mu-baek swung his sword moderately, matching Jeok Ga-ye’s offensive.

 

Now that she had overcome the wall.

 

How much Jeok Ga-ye would develop in this state of concentration would be determined.

 

Just because she had succeeded in creating sword qi, Ha Mu-baek didn’t deliberately break her concentration.

 

The Maengryong Corps cadets didn’t know this fact.

 

But they were surprised by what Jeok Ga-ye had shown.

 

And in the atmosphere that was now pervading.

 

They kept their mouths shut and stayed quiet.

 

The instructors naturally recognized that this was an important moment.

 

And the same was true for the Seventh Group cadets.

 

Dang Jin-san seemed to have his mouth itching to speak, but he kept it firmly shut.

 

The story could be told anytime.

 

But Jeok Ga-ye’s opportunity might never come again if not now.

 

Perhaps today could be the first and last opportunity of her entire life.

 

Under everyone’s attention.

 

Jeok Ga-ye’s sword moved faster and stronger.

 

And more mysteriously.

 

It was a complete moment of awakening.

 

Ha Mu-baek silently received her endlessly swinging sword.

 

How long had she swung her sword like that?

 

“Huff. Huff. Huff.”

 

Ragged breathing flowed from her mouth.

 

Her physical limits were approaching.

 

Nevertheless, as a result of swinging her sword to the very end.

 

Stop.

 

Her sword came to a halt.

 

It had to.

 

Only now did she feel it.

 

Her dantian was completely empty.

 

There was no more internal energy left to move her sword stronger, faster, more mysteriously.

 

At the end, she had swung her sword purely with muscular strength alone.

 

Only after feeling her empty internal energy did she stop her sword.

 

“Ah, ahh, ahh…”

 

Jeok Ga-ye wore an expression as if dazed, as if swept up in confusion.

 

“Enter meditation immediately.”

 

Ha Mu-baek gave the instruction in a stern voice.

 

Jeok Ga-ye reflexively sat cross-legged and entered meditation.

 

Though she didn’t properly know what meditation was.

 

It felt like what she should do.

 

As she sat cross-legged and closed her eyes.

 

All sorts of things swirled through her mind.

 

And only now, she saw her own sword that had been in her memory.

 

She recognized the blue light that had formed on her sword.

 

She still didn’t know what it was.

 

It was natural since she knew nothing about what sword qi was like.

 

However, while reviewing that moment when she had swung her sword in complete concentration during the sparring with Ha Mu-baek.

 

She was realizing many things.

 

It was truly a moment of genuine awakening, a moment of opportunity.

 

Ha Mu-baek gazed at her quietly, then stepped back a few paces.

 

Then he waved his hand while looking at the instructors and cadets.

 

The instructors immediately understood the meaning and quietly led the cadets out of the Great Training Ground.

 

Today’s training had ended like this.

 

The Great Training Ground where everyone had left.

 

Only Jeok Ga-ye remained sitting cross-legged.

 

Ha Mu-baek, who had been a few steps away, went to the rock where he always stayed and lay down diagonally there.

 

Ha Mu-baek’s qi sense covered the Great Training Ground.

 

Now no one would be able to enter the Great Training Ground without Ha Mu-baek’s permission.

 

 

 

“Whew. What the hell was that?”

 

Group 7 Training Ground.

 

Dang Jin-san let out the breath he had been holding and spoke.

 

“An opportunity.”

 

Ha Seol-ran answered briefly.

 

“I know, I know. Just what kind of person is our instructor? Why does he encounter such opportunities every time he spars? Something that might come once in a lifetime, if at all.”

 

Dang Jin-san muttered as if fed up.

 

Though he had sparred with Ha Mu-baek countless times, Dang Jin-san had not yet entered to that degree.

 

Though there were those among them who had entered such a state of selflessness.

 

“Earnestness, desperation, and concentration. That’s the difference.”

 

Baek Ri-pyeong spoke calmly.

 

“Right. And before that, you have to prepare the vessel through harsh training beforehand. It doesn’t just happen.”

 

It was Han Seol-bing.

 

She too had come to Group 7’s training ground.

 

She looked at the Seventh Group cadets with a bright smile.

 

“So, we should continue training, right? Even if it’s to encounter such opportunities?”

 

“Huh?”

 

Dang Jin-san was flustered by the unexpected situation.

 

Han Seol-bing drew her sword.

 

“Come at me.”

 

Brief words.

 

But at the fighting spirit that gradually boiled up from her body.

 

The Seventh Group and Twentieth Group cadets hastily formed battle formation and began attacking toward her.

 

The fighting spirit she emanated guided them to do so.

 

Watching the sparring between Ha Mu-baek and Jeok Ga-ye, Han Seol-bing’s body had unknowingly heated up.

 

Clang! Clang! Kang! Kang!

 

Thus the sound of sword clashing echoed through Group 7’s training ground.

 

 

 

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“Whew.”

 

A deep sigh flowed from Pung Geon’s mouth.

 

The main base of the Bongma Corps was visible in the distance.

 

They had almost arrived now.

 

It seemed they would be able to return before nightfall.

 

Around that time, Pung Geon stopped walking.

 

Since the squad leader stopped, all the others stopped as well.

 

“What should we do?”

 

Pung Geon asked.

 

“This time we have to report exactly as it was. This is no ordinary matter.”

 

Yu Gwi-gwang spoke with a serious face.

 

He still couldn’t forget that trembling of the Sanwol Great Wall’s ramparts.

 

A jiangshi attacking the fortress walls, who would have thought.

 

He had never seen or heard of such a thing until now.

 

When jiangshi came near the fortress walls, even when they tried to leap over, they would soon retreat backward due to the magic imbued in the walls.

 

Until now, there hadn’t even been a single entity that attempted to attack the walls.

 

“If it had been stronger, the walls might have been breached.”

 

Everyone nodded at Gwan Ha-gyeong’s serious words.

 

The gazes of the Bongma Corps members and Maengryong Corps members turned toward the main base.

 

The encampment established outside the north gate of Sanwol Great Wall.

 

What had once been an utterly reliable space now only felt anxious.

 

Whatever intentions the Bongma Corps Leader had, this had to be reported.

 

“And… I think it would be good to inform Instructor Ha as well.”

 

Yu Gwi-gwang’s words.

 

Pung Geon nodded his head.

 

“I’m thinking the same thing.”

 

This was an incomparably larger incident than the Poison Jiangshi that had been spreading Jamhon Poison.

 

Ha Mu-baek had mentioned it in passing before.

 

The Blood Cult bastards had created all kinds of Jiangshi, so there were Jiangshi even stronger than Dark Blood Jiangshi.

 

So be careful.

 

Perhaps that Jiangshi had appeared.

 

Pung Geon thought so.

 

“How should we inform him?”

 

At Gwan Ha-gyeong’s question.

 

Pung Geon’s gaze turned toward Chu Ryang.

 

“Go to Cheongjon and send a messenger bird.”

 

It was a fairly large city located north of Sanwol Demon Forest.

 

There would surely be messenger birds there that could be sent to Muchang.

 

“Wouldn’t that be unauthorized absence?”

 

Chu Ryang asked cautiously.

 

He was now a first-year member, so it was natural worry.

 

A plausible excuse was needed.

 

The reason of sending a message to Gyoryong Hall wouldn’t work at all.

 

They belonged to the Jeongcheon Alliance, not Gyoryong Hall.

 

Pung Geon frowned slightly.

 

Even though he wanted to send news to the Main Alliance too.

 

As someone from Sanhwa Manor, a small-to-medium sect, he had no connections to send a message directly while ignoring the chain of command.

 

“How about just sending it to Cheonmok Pavilion too?”

 

It was Yu Gwi-gwang.

 

Everyone’s gaze turned to him.

 

“Anyway, news about the Bongma Corps should be sent to Cheonmok Pavilion too. Say it was urgent so you arranged to send it directly. What’s that Dan-ju bastard going to do about it? Kill you? Though he might send you somewhere to die.”

 

Yu Gwi-gwang’s voice was filled with malice.

 

It was a reasonable suggestion.

 

“But if we don’t know the code words, it’ll be filtered out during screening…”

 

These were phrases that Jeongcheon Alliance military units had to include when sending status reports to Cheonmok Pavilion, and they were different for each military unit.

 

“Just use Maengryong Corps’ code words.”

 

Yu Gwi-gwang spoke as if it was nothing.

 

In fact, Maengryong Corps was supposed to report directly to Cheonmok Pavilion.

 

Though they received commands from Bongma Corps, they were a separate independent military unit not belonging to Bongma Corps.

 

However, that wasn’t how it worked.

 

Bongma Corps treated Maengryong Corps like a subordinate organization.

 

So all of Maengryong Corps’ reports went through Bongma Corps before reaching the Jeongcheon Alliance.

 

But Maengryong Corps was definitely an independent military unit.

 

Though there was no commander to lead them, they were definitely a military unit, so they were assigned nominal code words.

 

And Yu Gwi-gwang, who had spent the longest time in Maengryong Corps, knew those code words.

 

Pung Geon nodded his head.

 

“Did you hear that?”

 

“Yes.”

 

“Good. Go.”

 

At Pung Geon’s command, Chu Ryang kicked off the ground and ran toward Cheongjon.

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