The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 429

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Chapter 429. Let’s Go Together

 

 

“Hmm. This is… really…”

Ma Jin-gi, the Grand Guardian of Law of Seonyu Valley and a sorcerer.

With his immortal sage-like appearance, he stroked his long white beard and let out a hollow laugh.

His long white eyebrows twitched.

The Heavenly Star Ten Thousand Flower Monster Repelling Art.

It was a sorcery technique that even pouring all his life’s work into it wasn’t enough, so he had to rely on another power to complete it.

To protect Seonyu Valley.

Thanks to that, Seonyu Valley was safe during the last war.

He had deployed that technique at Sanwol Great Wall, saying he would use it to contain the jiangshi.

Now a letter had come saying there was a jiangshi trying to break that technique.

Hence the hollow laugh that escaped him.

At the time, he had confirmed the power of the Dark Blood Jiangshi and told people he made the technique based on that specimen.

But back then, Ma Jin-gi had poured all his life’s mental strength into it.

According to his calculations, he could have blocked even a Dark Blood Jiangshi twice as strong as So Hwi-ung, who was the Jeongcheon Alliance Leader at the time.

Since that was the maximum estimate, he had conservatively explained to people that it could block specimens about thirty to fifty percent stronger than So Hwi-ung’s martial arts level.

‘Could my calculations have been wrong? Hehe.’

Something had happened that wounded the pride of someone who had lived his entire life studying sorcery.

‘Or has a jiangshi with power exceeding what I calculated appeared?’

Ma Jin-gi shook his head at that thought.

It would be better for his pride to take a bit of a hit.

A jiangshi twice as strong as So Hwi-ung during the war?

That would be the beginning of another disaster.

“Elder, it’s me.”

Seonyugok Lord Gongsun Mu-oe.

He had come back just one day after delivering the letter.

From yesterday until today.

Ma Jin-gi had been absorbed only in the contents of the letter he had delivered.

“Please come in, Sect Leader.”

Gongsun Mu-oe entered through the door.

“You seem deeply troubled.”

Gongsun Mu-oe said carefully.

Ma Jin-gi nodded.

“How could I not be? There were those who sacrificed themselves for that technique.”

A shadow fell across Ma Jin-gi’s face.

It couldn’t be helped.

Even back then.

Ma Jin-gi was the foremost sorcerer in Seonyu Valley.

However, he couldn’t create a technique that could block even Dark Blood Jiangshi and was anxiously struggling.

The Blood Cult’s power was gradually growing.

But the completion of the technique was delayed.

Then.

He opened the Divine Book.

A bizarre existence that answered questions in exchange for human lifespan.

The existence that Ha Mu-baek had once called the Demon Book after hearing about its true nature.

As the price, two of Ma Jin-gi’s senior sorcerers lived out their natural lifespans and returned to heaven.

Since it was the key to the technique obtained that way, Ma Jin-gi poured his life’s mental strength into it.

He completed the most powerful technique he could possibly make.

Though he didn’t tell people the exact details.

Gongsun Mu-oe’s face also darkened at Ma Jin-gi’s words.

“This won’t do. Valley Lord. I should go and check it myself.”

Gongsun Mu-oe was startled by those words.

The elderly Ma Jin-gi wanted to go to Sanwol Demon Forest of all places.

A new jiangshi had appeared there causing this chaos, and now the greatest elder of Seonyu Valley said he would go there personally.

“You must not, Elder.”

Gongsun Mu-oe jumped up to dissuade him, but Ma Jin-gi just smiled gently.

“How many days do I have left to cower in the valley? I need to go and check it myself. Actually, I haven’t examined the Heavenly Star Ten Thousand Flower Monster Repelling Art since deploying it at Sanwol Great Wall. I’m a different person now than when I created that technique.”

That was true.

After that.

He had opened the Divine Book once more to find a way to treat Gung So-yu.

The fragments that poured out each time the Divine Book was opened.

Ma Jin-gi had been exposed to them twice, accumulating tremendous knowledge and studying it.

So with his current eyes, he might see something different.

He might be able to strengthen the technique further.

Nevertheless, Gongsun Mu-oe looked at Ma Jin-gi with worried eyes.

Soon.

As if he had made up his mind, he nodded firmly.

“I understand, Elder. Then I shall go with you as well.”

Ma Jin-gi was startled by those words.

“No, there’s no need for the Valley Lord to do that. The Valley Lord shouldn’t leave the valley empty again.”

Gongsun Mu-oe smiled broadly.

“It’s about time I passed on my position as well. I’ll hand over the Valley Lord position to U-gyeong. After that, I’ll serve you, Elder. So please wait just a little.”

Ma Jin-gi tried to dissuade him, but soon gave up on that thought.

Because he saw it.

The will in Gongsun Mu-oe’s eyes right now was like looking at his own eyes reflected in a mirror.

“Whew. I understand, Valley Lord. Thank you so much.”

“Not at all, Elder. Rather, I’m always grateful to you.”

The two men looked at each other and smiled broadly.

 

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Sanwol Demon Forest.

Underground of the Blood Cult Main Base.

The deepest place among them.

A place even deeper than where Gae Se-ak currently was.

Since it was in a completely different direction from where Gae Se-ak was digging, it was a place Gae Se-ak could never reach.

Il-no had come here alone.

No one except Il-no could enter this place.

A place only Il-no could enter.

Glass bottles and porcelain containers on the walls contained all kinds of medicines.

On one side were countless books, on the other side were piles of unidentifiable medicinal herbs.

Il-no looked with deep eyes at the wooden coffin sitting alone in the center of the room.

‘Just a little more remains.’

Il-no opened the coffin lid.

There lay a corpse with a gaping hole where the heart should be.

“It has been a long time, Sect Leader. You are getting better and better, indeed.”

Il-no’s muttering.

However, there was no way the corpse could respond.

Blood Cult Leader Gae Hong-cheon.

He lost his life to Ha Mu-baek’s single sword strike.

With his death, the Blood Cult met its end.

His corpse.

Was now here in this place.

The final battle with Gae Hong-cheon.

The exhausted martial artists of the Jeongcheon Alliance there had failed to secure his corpse.

Ha Mu-baek at that time had also poured out all his energy to deliver that final sword strike.

So Hwi-ung, who was the only one able to move.

Could not prevent the Blood Cult members who appeared at that location from recovering Gae Hong-cheon’s corpse and departing.

Il-no took out a new medicine bottle from his bosom.

“I should be grateful to Yeon Ja-gyeong. I never knew this herb had such efficacy.”

What was in the medicine bottle was juice made by processing Baekhwa Jagwangcho.

Juice with powerful internal energy dispersing effects.

He never dreamed that an herb with such efficacy would exist in Sanwol Demon Forest.

After observing the Bongma Corps continuously harvesting Baekhwa Jagwangcho and conducting research for a long time, he had discovered its efficacy.

“To think I was blind to something so desperately needed right under my nose, no different from a blind man with open eyes. Hehe. But now that I’ve found it. Just a little more remains, Sect Leader.”

Saying this, Il-no poured the juice of Baekhwa Jagwangcho into the gaping hole in Gae Hong-cheon’s heart.

At that moment.

The area around the hole began to bubble and boil.

Then Gae Hong-cheon’s corpse, which had been pure white, began to gradually turn red.

Il-no smiled brightly.

“Indeed, it’s effective. Ha Mu-baek. Even that damned bastard’s residual internal energy has dispersed!”

Il-no shouted joyfully.

Reverse Heaven Blood Flow Destruction Blood Art.

A secret martial art that only the Blood Cult Leader could learn.

Blood Art.

Destruction Blood Art.

Destruction meant not only destroying enemies.

But also destroying oneself.

Even the Sect Leader did not know this fact.

Previous Sect Leaders also did not know.

Only.

The Blood Cult First Elder.

It had been passed down through generations of First Elders.

The Blood Cult’s greatest jiangshi master.

The one who knew everything about Blood Cult jiangshi.

That was the Blood Cult First Elder.

After the deaths of previous Blood Cult Leaders.

A fragment that could turn them into jiangshi was contained within the Reverse Heaven Blood Flow Destruction Blood Art.

However.

It had never been performed until now.

There had never been a mad First Elder who would appoint the next Sect Leader and then create a jiangshi from the deceased Sect Leader’s corpse in front of all the cult members.

However, the situation had changed from the current First Elder’s time.

The Blood Cult had fallen, and he had completely obtained the dead Sect Leader’s corpse.

The new Sect Leader had no interest even in the Blood Cult’s revival.

Il-no had no choice but to use the jiangshi arts passed down through generations.

Asura Blood Heaven Jiangshi.

Something even the Blood Cult had no records of.

The Blood Cult’s strongest jiangshi, passed down only orally from First Elder to First Elder.

A jiangshi created from the Sect Leader’s corpse.

Il-no was now creating that forbidden jiangshi.

In fact, it should have been completed long ago.

Even after shattering Gae Hong-cheon’s heart.

Ha Mu-baek’s internal energy remaining in his body.

Had been interfering with it.

The process had been blocked at an intermediate stage.

He had used countless internal energy dispersing poisons to eliminate that residual internal energy, but it was useless.

How, by what means the internal energy remained, he could not understand at all.

It was beyond normal circumstances.

The internal energy would show no trace, but when he began the jiangshi creation method, it would appear like a ghost to interfere.

A situation that even Il-no, supposedly the pinnacle of jiangshi arts, could not understand at all.

He had desperately searched for an internal energy dispersing poison that could erase that residual internal energy.

But he had found the answer in an unexpected place.

The Baekhwa Jagwangcho that Yeon Ja-gyeong so carefully collected.

He had finally discovered it there.

‘Did he ask me to stop the Guardian Deity’s movements?’

That was already being done, so there was no problem.

But to think the field training to Sanwol Demon Forest almost got cancelled because of the Guardian Deity.

It was a chilling matter.

How long had he been waiting for the field training.

‘And So Hwi-ung is coming personally?’

Il-no showed intense killing intent.

There was still much time left until the completion of the Asura Blood Heaven Jiangshi.

It was physically impossible by the time they came to Sanwol Demon Forest.

But he had to prepare to face So Hwi-ung.

Something he had already been thinking about.

He never expected So Hwi-ung to come personally.

But it was truly a fortunate turn of events.

After Il-no finished all of today’s work, he covered the coffin lid.

He closed the door and ascended again.

This place was forbidden to anyone in the Blood Cult.

Reactivating the mechanisms along the way, he climbed up, up.

 

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Ha Mu-baek received a letter that had flown from Seonyu Valley.

A letter from Gongsun Mu-oe after a long time.

Because of it, Ha Mu-baek scratched his head with a troubled expression.

“Hmm. The mystical arts of Sanwol Great Wall…”

It’s not that he didn’t know about those mystical arts.

It’s just that Ha Mu-baek could not directly experience the power of mystical arts.

The incident where a newly appeared jiangshi had knocked on the Great Wall.

Because of that, Elder Ma Jin-gi was personally going to Sanwol Demon Forest to check the mystical arts.

Valley Master Gongsun Mu-oe would pass the valley master position to his eldest son and go together.

Even so, since the new type of jiangshi was concerning, it was a polite letter requesting if he could come if it wouldn’t be too much trouble.

Looking at the timing.

It was around the same time when the Maengryong Corps cadets would complete their training at Gyoryong Hall and be dispatched to Sanwol Demon Forest.

All the circumstances were strangely falling into place perfectly.

“Sanwol Demon Forest… hmm…”

Ha Mu-baek fell into deep thought.

“What are you worrying about now?”

It was Han Seol-bing.

“Sanwol Demon Forest doesn’t seem ordinary.”

Han Seol-bing nodded at his brief answer.

In fact, when had that place ever been ordinary?

It had always been an extraordinary place.

“So?”

“I don’t know.”

Ha Mu-baek gave a short reply.

However, the complex feelings embedded in his answer were clearly visible to Han Seol-bing’s eyes.

“Really?”

Han Seol-bing’s question.

“I might need to see Gongsun Elder once more.”

Han Seol-bing’s eyes lit up.

“Let’s go together.”

At her words.

“What for?”

Ha Mu-baek asked indifferently.

“Back then. I think I need to see the Military Advisor too.”

Han Seol-bing smiled slyly.

He couldn’t figure out her true intentions at all.

While Han Seol-bing could clearly see through Ha Mu-baek’s thoughts.

‘Currently, the Corps Leader and Vice Commander positions of Maengryong Corps are vacant. Moreover, Maengryong Corps belongs to Cheonmok Pavilion.’

This was a fact that very few people knew.

More precisely, no one had been paying attention to it.

The same was true for Ha Mu-baek.

Even he didn’t know that Maengryong Corps belonged to Cheonmok Pavilion.

“Alright. Let’s go when the Dongtu Festival starts.”

The Dongtu Festival was now only two days away.

And today was.

The first training day for the Maengryong Corps cadets to face jiangshi using sword qi.

The Maengryong Corps cadets began entering the empty Great Training Ground one by one.

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