The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 431

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Chapter 431. Hmm. It’s Ambiguous

 

 

“Have you come?”

After leaving the Director’s Pavilion and parting with Han Seol-bing, the person Ha Mu-baek sought out was his Master.

Wi Ji-gun welcomed Ha Mu-baek with a smile, as if he had been waiting.

“I apologize.”

Ha Mu-baek bowed his head deeply.

Wi Ji-gun simply continued to wear a benevolent smile.

“How could that be your fault? It’s because you have many children to look after.”

Hadn’t Wi Ji-gun also watched the final training of the Maengryong Corps together?

While in the guise of Ji Gun-wi, that is.

Even in his eyes, they were truly admirable children.

Ha Mu-baek was responsible for two hundred such children.

He couldn’t easily find time.

When he could have made time, the smell of blood had not yet completely left his body.

Just when the smell of blood seemed to have faded, he became frantically busy.

So busy that he himself had to train the Maengryong Corps children in his stead.

“How much time do you have?”

“The Winter Competition starts tomorrow… about two days.”

This year’s Winter Competition was also decided to be held over two days.

Even though it could be completed in one day, Peng Do-yul had decided to hold it over two days under the pretext of ensuring adequate rest.

“Hmm. It’s ambiguous.”

Wi Ji-gun said while stroking his beard.

How had it been for himself?

He recalled old memories from long ago.

It seemed to have taken roughly four days.

Wi Ji-gun gazed intently at his disciple.

Thinking back to his own martial arts level at that time.

It was incomparable to the disciple before his eyes now.

Hadn’t Ha Mu-baek already surpassed even his own realm?

He had entered the Archive Hall without even knowing what the fragments of Taecho were.

But Mu-baek knew what the fragments of Taecho were, and had even achieved victory in battle against one of them.

“For you, two days should be sufficient.”

Wi Ji-gun nodded and said.

“I will do my best.”

“Yes. Since you said you would also leave after the children depart. Now is the only time.”

Since Ha Mu-baek had already encountered a fragment of Taecho.

Now that he had completely removed the smell of blood.

Entering the Archive Hall could no longer be delayed.

“Let’s go.”

The figures of Wi Ji-gun and Ha Mu-baek disappeared.

The two men deployed their lightness skills and ran at full speed.

Their destination was Dongting Lake.

It wasn’t for nothing that they had chosen Cheongran Island as their hideout.

Dongting Lake.

There, the Infinite Sword Sect, the sect of Wi Ji-gun and Ha Mu-baek, was located.

The two men ran without hesitation and arrived at Dongting Lake.

Even so, the legs of the two master and disciple did not stop.

They kicked off the waters of Dongting Lake and continued running.

It was the supreme level of lightness skills that had reached the realm of water-walking and crossing water on duckweed.

Thus, the two men reached the center of Dongting Lake.

Year-round. Through all four seasons.

A place where thick fog was always present.

It was fog created by a formation.

Wi Ji-gun took the lead.

Ha Mu-baek had not visited this place many times either.

When Wi Ji-gun, who knew the life gate, stepped forward on the compass points, Ha Mu-baek immediately followed behind.

The place they arrived at.

It was a vast island.

Land that seemed to be more than twice the area of Gyoryong Hall.

No one knew that such an island existed in the middle of Dongting Lake.

Even the fishermen of Dongting Lake, caught in the fog around this area, always returned to where they came from.

This place was one of the mysteries of Dongting Lake.

The Infinite Sword Sect.

A sect that had declined, leaving its former glory behind.

Even the main gate at the entrance was thoroughly worn and old.

“Tsk.”

At that sight, Wi Ji-gun clicked his tongue as if feeling sorry.

“Do you wish to restore it?”

Ha Mu-baek, reading his Master’s inner thoughts, asked.

“It’s merely following the natural order.”

It was the sect of Ha Mu-baek, who had virtually reached the realm of being the best under heaven.

A sect whose transmitted divine arts and supreme techniques had reached the ends of the world.

To say that such decline was merely following the natural order.

It was an incomprehensible story.

“Let’s go.”

Wi Ji-gun took the lead and walked.

The dust thickly settled on the shabby walls told of how long this place had been neglected.

Thus they arrived at the very center of the sect.

There was a small hall.

The door had long since rotted and fallen away.

Wi Ji-gun, who had stepped inside first, activated a mechanism.

Creak. Groan. Creeeeak.

With loud creaking sounds, stairs leading underground revealed themselves.

Wi Ji-gun stepped aside.

“Go and return.”

 

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Won Pyeong-sam and Yeong So-hyang.

The two had left Chang’an.

It was because of Yeong So-hyang’s wish.

Since she had decided to become the disciple of Won Pyeong-sam, who had learned demonic arts.

She had to sever any connection with Haomun as much as possible.

However, they couldn’t go too far from Chang’an either.

Because she needed to hear news about the matter she had commissioned to Haomun.

Thus, the destination Yeong So-hyang decided on was Yeoshan Mountain.

A mountain located slightly northeast of Chang’an.

In fact.

The area around Chang’an was not a suitable place for learning Demonic Arts.

To the east of Chang’an was Mount Hua, and to the south was Zhongnan Mountain.

The Huashan Sect and Zhongnan Sect of the Nine Sects and One Alliance were right nearby.

Nevertheless, the reason she chose Yeoshan Mountain was.

There was the reason that it’s darkest under the lamp, and the fact that Yeoshan Mountain was quite a deep mountain.

And it was famous for hot springs, with many wandering travelers passing through, so Murim people rarely visited it.

Being famous for hot springs also had another meaning.

That the mountain was full of fire energy.

In other words.

It meant the mountain’s fire energy could somewhat conceal Won Pyeong-sam’s demonic energy.

Therefore, around Chang’an, she chose Yeoshan Mountain as the optimal location.

“Excellent.”

While climbing Yeoshan Mountain, Won Pyeong-sam spoke quietly.

The energy the mountain possessed was good.

Fire energy that seemed ready to burst up from the ground at any moment.

It was an extremely bad place for cultivating Poison Arts.

But it was an incomparably good place for learning other martial arts.

Whether they were orthodox, unorthodox, or Demonic Arts.

Thus, the two found a suitable location in a deep valley.

A place with four or five deep caves.

And two or three unknown hot springs nearby.

They established their residence there.

After spending a day like that.

The next morning at dawn.

When all around was pitch dark.

Won Pyeong-sam and Yeong So-hyang sat facing each other in cross-legged sitting.

“Listen. About your constitution.”

Solemn words.

“It’s called the Vermillion Bird Blood Spirit Constitution. A constitution with the highest aptitude for all heavenly martial arts.”

Heavenly martial arts.

She had heard from Bae Un-san that the martial arts Won Pyeong-sam called such were Demonic Arts.

Yeong So-hyang tilted her head.

From what she had heard, her constitution only had resistance to the curse of Destruction Art.

“I heard that my constitution only has resistance to the curse of Destruction Art. But how…”

“Destruction Art? What is that?”

At Yeong So-hyang’s words, Won Pyeong-sam asked.

She explained Destruction Art in detail.

About the cursed martial art that turned humans into jiangshi when reaching Ultimate Achievement.

“Such trash…”

Won Pyeong-sam spoke as if in a bad mood.

Yeong So-hyang was still looking at him.

“That martial art called Destruction Art. It’s nothing but a filthy inferior art.”

A merciless evaluation.

“The Vermillion Bird Blood Spirit Constitution is a body born for heavenly martial arts. Naturally, the effects of such crude martial arts would be limited.”

“But even I can only resist the curse of Destruction Art, not reject it…”

“I would need to see the traditional formula of that inferior art directly to know for sure… but it seems they made something filthy and crude quite viciously. To think even the ancient Vermillion Bird Blood Spirit Constitution cannot reject it.”

Won Pyeong-sam spoke with a sigh, as if in a bad mood.

“However, that’s only when you haven’t encountered heavenly martial arts. A Vermillion Bird Blood Spirit Constitution that has obtained heavenly martial arts cannot be matched by anything under heaven. I didn’t boast that I would bring you to the realm of Transcendent Demon within a year for nothing.”

Yeong So-hyang concentrated on Won Pyeong-sam’s words.

“The Vermillion Bird Blood Spirit Constitution is originally such an innate constitution. But you’ve been learning inferior martial arts like Blood Sea Ghost Death Palm that don’t suit your body, so progress was bound to be slow.”

To be precise, Yeong So-hyang’s achievement in Blood Sea Ghost Death Palm was never slow.

No, it was extremely fast.

Throughout all of history, she was probably the only one to learn Blood Sea Ghost Death Palm to such a level in such a short time with only a secret manual and no master.

“Forget about Blood Sea Ghost Death Palm. And learn our Won family’s secret heavenly art that I will pass down to you. Then a new world will open. When the day comes that you go to Heaven with me, there you will learn countless more heavenly arts.”

Heavenly arts.

Heavenly martial arts.

Yeong So-hyang understood well.

Though Won Pyeong-sam called them heavenly arts and elevated his own martial arts.

The truth was they were Demonic Arts.

‘To think my constitution was for learning Demonic Arts…’

Complex feelings.

Though she was an unorthodox martial artist from Haomun.

Still, weren’t Demonic Arts martial arts that even unorthodox martial artists shunned and despised?

Yet.

She was told she had a body bestowed by heaven for such Demonic Arts.

‘Then I must learn them. And put the world beneath my feet.’

Both orthodox sects.

And unorthodox sects.

So they cannot shun and despise her.

Rather, so they would worship her.

She must become Number One Under Heaven.

Such was Yeong So-hyang’s resolve.

If she could achieve that, revenge would naturally follow.

She decided to believe Won Pyeong-sam’s words.

“I understand. Master.”

At Yeong So-hyang’s words.

Won Pyeong-sam smiled with satisfaction.

“From now on, concentrate and listen to the traditional formula I will teach you. For someone like you, it will be memorized naturally without even trying to memorize it.”

Won Pyeong-sam slowly began transmitting the traditional formula of his exclusive martial arts.

Mad Flame Solar Heaven Art.

Or originally, Mad Flame Solar Demonic Art.

A Demonic Art created by imitating one fragment of the Myriad Transformation fragments.

Among all Demonic Arts under heaven, the martial art that reached the pinnacle of extreme yang.

Truly a martial art like the incarnation of flames that could burn everything in the world.

Not just ordinary flames.

Mad flames.

Raging flames.

“Don’t wonder at transmitting extreme yang heavenly arts to a woman. The Vermillion Bird Blood Spirit Constitution has no such limitations.”

Won Pyeong-sam’s additional words after transmitting all the traditional formulas.

However, Yeong So-hyang’s ears heard none of those words.

She was already deeply absorbed in the martial art’s traditional formulas.

Won Pyeong-sam’s words were correct.

She didn’t try to memorize them.

She only tried to concentrate and listen.

Each character of the traditional formula was imprinted in her mind as if carved into her bones.

And she was swimming deeply within those traditional formulas.

Won Pyeong-sam had not given any separate interpretation or teaching about the incantation formula.

He had simply recited the incantation formula once.

However.

She seemed to understand what that incantation formula meant.

The internal energy in her dantian naturally moved following the incantation formula.

The qi energy that had risen like a thread and moved slowly soon began to surge like a raging torrent.

It burned away and completely annihilated the internal energy of the Blood Sea Ghost Death Palm that had first settled in her dantian.

And the qi energy of the Mad Flame Solar Demonic Art took its place instead.

Precisely, demonic energy.

Gradually, demonic energy began to emanate from her body.

Won Pyeong-sam watched this sight with eyes filled with ecstasy.

‘Indeed! My eyes were not wrong!’

The True Mountain Ultimate Technique of the Ten Demons Won Family, one of the ten pillars of Heaven.

He had merely recited its incantation formula once.

Yet she had already begun to emit demonic energy to such a degree.

Even for Won Pyeong-sam, this was a miracle he had never seen or heard of.

He knew that even that most noble and revered Supreme Being and Heavenly Lord could not do such a thing.

“Hehe. Hehehehehe.”

Only laughter flowed out.

How could it not be so.

Having come to the Central Plains to find traces of Manhwang and Buddha.

He had obtained such a jewel of the ages.

Coming to Chang’an, going to Yegaru Pavilion, Haomun’s Main Hall.

He thought it might have been the pull of fate.

“Continue to listen well.”

Won Pyeong-sam deployed sound transmission infused with internal energy.

He knew that ordinary sound transmission would not reach Yeong So-hyang’s ears in her current state.

She was in a state of extreme concentration.

It was not intentional, but the instinct of the Vermillion Bird Blood Spirit Body.

That was why Won Pyeong-sam could send sound transmission infused with internal energy without hesitation.

Knowing that her concentration would not be broken by this much.

“The Mad Flame Solar Heaven Art is….”

Won Pyeong-sam transmitted all the heart comprehension he had gained throughout his lifetime.

Even if instinct grasped the essence of demonic arts.

There were clear limitations.

Instinct was, after all, instinct.

Won Pyeong-sam sought to break such limitations by transmitting all the heart comprehension he had gained.

He believed without doubt that with the instinct of the Vermillion Bird Blood Spirit Body, using Won Pyeong-sam’s heart comprehension as nourishment, she would reach an even more tremendous realm.

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