The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 437

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Chapter 437. Just These Two?

 

 

The final form of the Eighty-One Style Galaxy Phantom Sword Technique.

The eighty-first form.

It was a technique that contained all the variations from the first to the eightieth form in a single sword strike.

It was truly the ultimate sword form.

Dan Mok Un-rae had never succeeded in performing it even once.

No, he couldn’t even properly imitate it.

“To perform the final eighty-first form, your realm needs to rise several levels.”

Ha Mu-baek’s words as he watched Dan Mok Un-rae’s training.

“Uh, couldn’t you show me what kind of form it is, Instructor?”

Dan Mok Un-rae pleaded with a desperate expression.

“I cannot perform another sect’s sword technique. To properly execute it as a true sword form, I would ultimately have to master it myself.”

Dan Mok Un-rae’s face fell briefly at the response.

“However. To teach you, I could reference the original formula and show something resembling an imitation.”

With that, he lightly swung his sword.

Just once.

That sword form he had shown, claiming it was worse than an imitation.

Dan Mok Un-rae couldn’t even imitate that.

But still.

Now.

He had an intuition that it was time to perform it.

Right now before his eyes, Ju U-myeong was performing the Taiji Wisdom Sword once more with a sword that had manifested sword threads.

No matter how much Dan Mok Un-rae squeezed out his internal energy.

He couldn’t counter the sword threads. Not in his current state.

Then what would decide the match was sword technique.

But even in that, Dan Mok Un-rae’s enlightenment fell short of Ju U-myeong’s.

What Dan Mok Un-rae could do now was nothing but gamble.

The final form of the Eighty-One Style Galaxy Phantom Sword Technique.

Galaxy’s Myriad Radiance.

A galaxy shining with ten thousand colors.

He thrust toward Ju U-myeong, containing all variations in a single sword strike.

Ju U-myeong focused on the extraordinary sword movement flying toward him and swung his sword with full power.

The opponent before his eyes.

As he had felt at last year’s Eastern Tournament too.

Was definitely a formidable enemy who couldn’t be taken lightly.

He swung his sword, containing all the mysteries of the Taiji Wisdom Sword.

Scrape.

With a short cutting sound, Dan Mok Un-rae’s sword was severed.

Slash.

At that moment.

A thin wound appeared on Ju U-myeong’s left cheek and blood trickled down.

“It didn’t reach….”

Dan Mok Un-rae muttered with a regretful expression.

“That was dangerous.”

Ju U-myeong muttered calmly and sheathed his sword.

It had truly been dangerous.

Because Dan Mok Un-rae had given his all without thinking of consequences.

If that transformation had been completed just a little more.

Perhaps Ju U-myeong’s neck might have been cut.

“I’ve lost.”

Dan Mok Un-rae acknowledged his defeat and descended from the martial arts arena.

Below the arena, Han Seol-bing was waiting for him.

She had rushed over after seeing the final sword form.

“Instructor Han?”

When Dan Mok Un-rae looked at her with a puzzled expression.

Grab!

Han Seol-bing seized Dan Mok Un-rae by the collar.

“Urgh.”

Dan Mok Un-rae groaned as he was lifted into the air.

People’s gazes converged on one spot at the sudden situation.

“No matter how much you wanted to win, no matter how much you gave your all. There are lines that must not be crossed.”

A cold voice pierced Dan Mok Un-rae’s ears.

Whoosh.

Then Han Seol-bing threw Dan Mok Un-rae to the ground, turned around, and disappeared.

Only a cold aura remained swirling where she had vanished.

“Lines that must not be crossed…?”

Dan Mok Un-rae muttered the words Han Seol-bing had left with a dazed expression.

In his eyes.

Ju U-myeong’s face came into view as he descended from the arena.

The wound on his cheek.

What if his sword had been a little closer to completion, and Ju U-myeong had been a little weaker?

When his thoughts reached that point.

“Gasp….”

He realized.

“Did I use killing intent against U-myeong?”

With an expression showing he hadn’t even thought of it.

Shocked.

His whole body trembled.

 

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Wuji looked at Ha Mu-baek’s right hand.

A hand prepared to strike at any moment.

He thought that Wi Ji-gun had indeed raised his disciple well.

No, was it because that boy was so exceptional that he had already experienced deep things before coming here?

“The Abyss is Taecho’s will and intention.”

Wuji briefly answered Ha Mu-baek’s question.

“Then….”

“Yes. It tries to merge into one. But it cannot do so. The six fragments were torn apart again.”

“Is it Manhwang’s doing?”

“Manhwang wants to annihilate Taecho’s fragments.”

The more he heard, the more incomprehensible it became, only adding to the confusion.

“When Manhwang appeared and rebelled against Taecho, and the two were shattered, a variable occurred that neither Manhwang nor Taecho had anticipated.”

‘A variable?’

Ha Mu-baek only raised questions in his mind without asking them.

Even without that, Wuji was continuing his story.

“When Taecho clumped together into six fragments of similar nature. The will, that is, the abyss also split according to those characteristics. They came to have different thoughts from Taecho’s will. It was the manifestation of their wills. Just like how Manhwang rebelled from the complete one.”

“Do you mean that among the six fragments’ abysses, there are those who refuse to return to being the original one, Taecho?”

Wuji nodded at Ha Mu-baek’s question.

“How has living in this world been for you?”

Wuji asked Ha Mu-baek.

Ha Mu-baek briefly reflected on his life at Josa’s question.

The beginning was happiness.

Next was hell, and what followed was marked with blood.

And now.

Honestly, he didn’t know.

‘Well, maybe I’m living quite interestingly…’

Wuji gazed intently at such Ha Mu-baek.

“You seem to have many stories too.”

Ha Mu-baek gave no answer, but Wuji nodded as if he had heard a response.

“Joy, anger, sorrow, pleasure, love, hate, desire. You must have experienced all of them. That’s what the world is like, and life is the same. So what do you think the world is like?”

“I don’t know.”

Ha Mu-baek answered honestly.

“Then what about your life?”

“It was fierce.”

“So did you ever think of ending that life?”

Ha Mu-baek shook his head.

He couldn’t do that.

He had a precious younger sibling named Ha Seol-ran.

And there were quite interesting cadets too.

There were also comrades who had overcome hardships together.

He had no intention of ending his life leaving them behind.

Wuji nodded.

“That’s right. Beings living in the world each cherish their own lives. The foundation for such beings to live is precisely this world. However this world flows, this is now a complete world.”

“What do you mean?”

“Taecho, Manhwang, the complete one. This is no longer their world. Eons have passed since they split and shattered to create this world. Existing as it is now. That is the will and wish of the beings that constitute this world. I have made that judgment.”

“Sa Jo has?”

“Yes. One of Taecho’s fragments, Wuji. I am the abyss of Wuji.”

An answer to Ha Mu-baek’s question.

It was an answer to what he had asked with doubt.

“To be precise, I am the human who first obtained Wuji. The abyss of Wuji made a decision that went against Taecho’s will. And became completely one with me.”

“Then Yeoui is…”

“Yeoui is the second fragment I found. Since it also made the same decision as me, its abyss also became one with me. Wuji . It means without limit. Wishing for this world to continue infinitely. Yeoui . It means according to one’s will. Wishing for the beings of this world to exist according to their will. The wills of two fragments of Taecho became united.”

Wuji’s long and lengthy explanation.

Only then did Ha Mu-baek understand Josa’s initial introduction.

Being both Wuji and Yeoui.

“Then Master’s words that I didn’t need to worry about the abyss while learning the Mugeuk Yeoui Heart Method?”

“Since the abyss has materialized like this, there is no abyss in the power of Mugeuk Yeoui. So naturally, there’s no need to worry about it.”

“Ah!”

Ha Mu-baek let out a small exclamation.

“Then how have you survived through those long years, Josa?”

Wuji smiled gently.

“My flesh died and disappeared long ago. This is the will of a martial artist who united with the abysses of Wuji and Yeoui remaining in the world. It’s to inform the descendants who inherited the power of Mugeuk Yeoui of Mugeuk Sword Gate’s mission.”

Wuji smiled broadly.

“What is that mission?”

“Until now, it would have been something you just kept in your heart, but seeing you, it seems you’ll need to move busily.”

“Pardon?”

“You’ve already encountered Tae among Manhwang, haven’t you? I can feel that guy’s energy from your body. And you’ve also obtained Radiance.”

“That’s correct.”

Ha Mu-baek nodded.

“It seems the time when Taecho and Manhwang will move again after eons has come in your era.”

Seriousness appeared on Wuji’s face.

“What you must do is live as you wish. While protecting this world so it continues to exist as it is. Preferably walking the righteous path.”

“The world…”

“You said you don’t know what this world is like. That too could be an answer. A world that could be paradise for some, hell for others. That too is part of the world. That’s something the beings living in the world must overcome while living according to their own thoughts. We cannot let the world disappear according to the will and desires of primordial beings.”

Ha Mu-baek’s eyes sank deeply.

The Blood Cult or Demon Cult.

This was a matter of different dimensions from trying to annihilate those bastards.

“What must I do for that?”

“You must annihilate the abysses of Darkness and Chaos. And you must also destroy the will of Manhwang’s fragments.”

“Only those two, Darkness and Chaos?”

Wuji nodded at Ha Mu-baek’s question.

“When the complete one existed. There was only darkness there, and everything was in a state of chaos. Primordial Unity . That was the state of the complete one.”

Ha Mu-baek could quickly understand from that explanation.

Darkness and Chaos.

Wasn’t it exactly the same state as their characteristics that could be inferred from their names?

“So they will try to follow Taecho’s will to return to the original state.”

“What about Void and Radiance?”

“Void is literally void. It would take the position that it’s meaningless whether this world stays as it is or returns to the original. Radiance only came to illuminate the world after the primordial unity was shattered, so it wouldn’t want to go back. Isn’t that right?”

Wuji looked at Ha Mu-baek and asked.

“Ugh, urgh…”

At that moment, extreme agony arose from Ha Mu-baek’s dantian.

To the extent that Ha Mu-baek couldn’t bear it and momentarily let out a groan.

‘Th-this is…’

In the moment of confusion at the sudden situation.

One of the energies residing in his dantian began moving on its own.

Even operating the Mugeuk Yeoui Heart Method was useless.

As that energy moved, light began emanating from Ha Mu-baek’s entire body.

Eventually.

Intense light burst forth from his dantian.

Ha Mu-baek couldn’t handle the light bursting from his own body and had to close his eyes.

A moment later.

When the agony in his dantian disappeared.

When he opened his eyes.

A sphere shining with five brilliant colors was floating between Ha Mu-baek and Wuji.

“Th-this is…”

Ha Mu-baek looked at it with a surprised face.

“It’s been a long time.”

Wuji muttered while looking at the sphere.

But.

His voice had changed.

Two voices overlapped and resonated.

‘Wh-what the hell is this…’

[Is this the first meeting since we were split apart?]

A will emanated from the Five-Colored Light Sphere.

So that Ha Mu-baek could hear it too.

“C-could it possibly be the Abyss of Radiance?”

Ha Mu-baek asked as the thought crossed his mind.

“That’s right.”

Wuji answered.

Ha Mu-baek looked at the Five-Colored Light Sphere with a surprised expression.

He had wondered, but never thought it would actually be true.

To think such tremendous power had been sleeping within his body.

Ha Mu-baek was feeling a tingling sensation throughout his entire body from the qi energy that the Abyss of Radiance was emanating.

Even so, his current internal energy hadn’t decreased at all.

Just how had such tremendous power been sleeping in his body without any sign whatsoever?

‘Can I win?’

He tried to entertain such a thought.

But he couldn’t be confident.

It was because he couldn’t fathom the extent of that power.

“It seems this is your first time meeting the Abyss of Radiance.”

Ha Mu-baek nodded at Wuji’s words.

There had been no signs whatsoever until now.

He thought he understood why Hyeon-hwang had spouted those words about whether he had met the Abyss.

Since it was a being with such power.

The power gained would differ depending on whether one had met it or not.

[Since my power had not yet reached sufficient levels, I did not convey my will. Among those who obtained Fragments of Radiance, there are none who are qualified.]

The answer flowed from the Abyss of Radiance.

 

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