The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 438

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Chapter 438. Listen Well, Mu-baek

 

 

“It’s not that you had no intention of conveying your will, is it?”

Wuji asked with a gentle smile.

[….]

Radiance gave no response.

“Now would have been the best time for you, so there was no particular reason to convey your will.”

[…You understand well.]

At Radiance’s answer, Wuji’s smile deepened.

“Of course. Though we are separate beings now, we were originally one, weren’t we? I was you, and you were me.”

The form of the five-colored orb began to change gradually, transforming into the appearance of a beautiful woman.

A gentle five-colored light still flowed from her entire body.

“It’s a story from a time I’d rather not recall.”

Radiance answered in a cold voice.

It was a coldness that contrasted with her beautiful appearance and the gentle radiance flowing from her entire body.

“I understand.”

Wuji readily agreed.

Hadn’t he told Ha Mu-baek the same thing from the beginning?

That Primordial Chaos was a world with nothing but darkness.

That Radiance, despite being a fragment of the world, couldn’t even reveal her form.

The gaze of Radiance, who had revealed her human form, turned toward Ha Mu-baek.

“You were the best among all the people I’ve experienced so far.”

A calm assessment.

After Ha Mu-baek obtained Radiance.

The Abyss had simply not manifested its will, but had been watching everything.

The statement that there had been no one qualified until now was both true and false.

If strength of ability was the criterion, it was false.

Ha Mu-baek already had more than enough qualification.

However.

Considering Radiance’s intentions, it was true.

She wanted this world, where day and night regularly exchanged places and was filled with bright light, to simply continue flowing as it was.

Since she had no intention of changing the world, there had been no one qualified to obtain the power of the Abyss.

For Radiance, this world was already her ideal.

A world filled only with light?

She didn’t even think of such a thing.

Light only had meaning when darkness existed.

Because she had memories of Primordial Chaos and had experienced day and night.

She knew well.

Light and darkness.

These two only had meaning when they coexisted.

“That child called Namgung Ji-hu? Namgung Hu? was quite interesting too.”

The name that flowed from Radiance’s lips at that moment.

It was Namgung Hu, who had learned the Emperor Sword Form.

Even though it wasn’t a complete fragment of Radiance.

As Ha Mu-baek looked at her with surprised eyes.

Radiance let out a cold laugh.

“Will dwells in every fragment. It’s just not revealed. After all, being shattered like that was also my will.”

“Are you saying you intentionally divided the fragments into countless pieces again?”

“I didn’t want to return to being one.”

Radiance spoke her honest feelings.

Her intention was simple.

Rather than existing completely as a fragment of Radiance.

If she scattered that fragment into pieces, it would be much more difficult to combine them into one again.

“But the intentions of the other fellows are different.”

Wuji interjected.

“What do you mean by that….”

“It’s to find the most suitable person. Darkness and Chaos are.”

“I don’t know what Void is thinking.”

Radiance said, shaking her head.

Wuji also nodded slightly as if he shared the same thought.

Void.

Though it had split from the same one.

An existence whose intentions were completely incomprehensible.

“Are you done with your curiosities now?”

Wuji asked, looking at Ha Mu-baek.

“How can the Abyss be destroyed?”

What Ha Mu-baek called his mission.

He was asking about the method to accomplish it.

Reflecting on what Radiance had said.

The Abyss seemed to exist in every fragment.

Then did that mean he had to eliminate all of them?

Ha Mu-baek asked all such questions.

“The Abyss exists in all the pieces that the fragments were shattered into again, but that is ultimately just a part of the main body.”

Wuji answered thus and looked at Radiance.

As if the main body could reveal itself like this.

“This space is special, so I was able to come out.”

Radiance’s words.

“So now the fragment of Radiance no longer has Radiance’s will. It merely exists as one of the fundamental powers of the world.”

Ha Mu-baek responded to Wuji’s explanation.

“Are you saying I must bring Darkness and Chaos here to meet the Abyss and destroy it?”

Ha Mu-baek recalled when he first encountered the Abyss of Radiance a moment ago.

He wondered if it would really be possible.

Wuji shook his head.

“We must not meet the Abyss of Darkness and Chaos. There’s a chance we might lose to them.”

“That’s right. It’s not a difference in power, but a difference in will. We are now beings that go against the will of Primordial Chaos. Compared to those fellows who try to carry out the original will of Primordial Chaos, our will’s power might be weaker.”

At Radiance’s continued explanation.

Ha Mu-baek became even more confused.

How on earth was he supposed to eliminate such beings?

“The answer lies in the Infinite Ruyi Divine Technique.”

Wuji answered with a gentle smile.

Infinite Ruyi Divine Technique.

It was a term encompassing all martial arts of the Mugeuk Sword Gate.

Including the Infinite Wishful Eight Section Sword based on the Mugeuk Yeoui Heart Method, as well as footwork techniques, close combat, Lightning Ten Thousand Li Movement, and even the Infinite Bright Wheel Eye.

It was not easily understood.

“This place is the boundary between the mental world and the real world, created by the power of Wuji and Yeoui. That’s why I could materialize. That means it’s also possible to cut down the Abyss, which has no physical form.”

Radiance added an explanation.

“And this is possible because the powers of Wuji and Yeoui have combined. Since their shared will creates endless possibilities.”

“Tsk.”

When Radiance finished explaining, Wuji clicked his tongue.

Radiance turned his gaze toward him.

“It only has meaning if one realizes it on their own.”

“Hmph. In any case, it’s using the power of Taecho’s fragments, so what difference does it make.”

As Radiance turned his head and spoke, Wuji shook his head.

“Mu-baek, listen well.”

Two solemn voices flowed from Wuji’s mouth.

Ha Mu-baek bowed his head.

“There exists something called the Six Primordial Divine Arts in this world.”

This was something Ha Mu-baek was well aware of.

“Though they are divine arts that use the names of Taecho’s six fragments directly. To be precise, they are not divine arts, that is, not martial arts. They are simply the pure power of the six primordial fragments themselves.”

Ha Mu-baek, recalling the power Hyeon-hwang had used, agreed with this explanation.

What that bastard had used after gaining more power in the Sutra Repository was not martial arts of a more supreme realm.

It was simply more powerful force.

“However, the Wuji-Yeoui Divine Art you have learned is different. It is a martial art I created with all my heart and soul to enable the most powerful use of Wuji and Yeoui’s powers. It is not simply the power of the six primordial fragments. Among the Six Primordial Divine Arts, Wuji and Yeoui no longer exist. Only the Wuji-Yeoui Divine Art remains.”

Wuji looked at Ha Mu-baek.

“Do you understand why I am telling you this?”

“To say it is martial arts rather than power means that ultimately, I must pursue its endless principles and become stronger on my own.”

Ha Mu-baek spoke calmly.

Wuji sent him an approving look.

“Correct. Though I created it, even I do not know its end. Where the limits of Wuji-Yeoui’s power might lie.”

Wuji raised his sword.

In an instant, his aura changed.

He lightly drew down the sword he had raised into midair.

Swooooosh!

The sword strike fell behind Ha Mu-baek.

And a sword mark was deeply carved into the ground.

“Th-this is…”

The memorial tablet on the ceiling of Archive Hall.

It was the sword mark that had carved it.

“This place is the boundary between reality and imagination. A place where time flows extremely fast. Even if you spend ten years here, only about an hour would pass in reality. Try pursuing it on your own once.”

With those words, Wuji turned around.

Radiance looked back and forth between the sword mark Wuji had made and his retreating figure.

“Hmph. How troublesome.”

And after spitting out those words, she too followed behind Wuji.

Now Ha Mu-baek was left alone in this place.

His gaze remained fixed on the sword mark carved into the ground.

In his mind, the single sword strike Wuji had just displayed was endlessly repeating.

Ha Mu-baek stood there quietly like that.

 

***

 

“I greet you, Elder.”

Bae Un-san secretly sought out Won Pyeong-sam and respectfully bowed his waist.

“What brings you here?”

Since it was a sudden visit, he asked for the reason.

“The results of the task you previously requested have come out to some degree, so I brought them for now. This contains information about the Demon Cult, and this contains information about places where powerful forces clashed.”

Bae Un-san set down two thick envelopes.

Won Pyeong-sam nodded his head.

“Well done.”

“It’s not finished yet. If I discover anything additional, I will visit you again.”

Bae Un-san, who had cupped his fists and bowed, disappeared just like that.

Won Pyeong-sam opened the first envelope.

Information about the Demon Cult.

More precisely, it was information about Seokga’s whereabouts.

Haomun’s intelligence network was amazing.

They had investigated everything from Seokga’s beginnings hundreds of years ago.

“Indeed, choosing to use Haomun was the right decision.”

Won Pyeong-sam, who had been reading the investigation contents, frowned.

“Stupid Seokga bastards.”

His voice contained anger.

And for good reason.

These idiotic bastards had gone to the trouble of creating a group called the Demon Cult, only to have the position of Sect Leader stolen from them.

And by an outsider who joined later, no less.

The names of the successive Demon Cult leaders that Bae Un-san had discovered revealed this.

From the fourth Sect Leader onward, they were not Seokga.

And only recently had Seokga reclaimed the position of Sect Leader.

From two generations before the last Sect Leader when the Demon Cult was destroyed, Seokga had been serving as Sect Leader again.

“Tsk.”

Won Pyeong-sam clicked his tongue roughly.

“There’s no need to even visit these bastards.”

They were the ones who had been entrusted with the great heavenly martial arts and sent out with one of Taecho’s fragments.

If they couldn’t hold onto the force they had created themselves and had it stolen by outsiders in the middle.

There would be nothing left.

No, they would have forgotten their mission as well.

It seemed he could just report to the Supreme Heavenly Lord as is.

That Seokga was now a lost cause.

That the Eight Demons would need to be newly selected.

Won Pyeong-sam, who had put down the documents about the Demon Cult with a displeased expression, opened the second envelope.

It contained information about battles suspected to have involved clashes of powerful forces recently.

Strangely, all the battles that Haomun had identified were connected to Ha Mu-baek.

The Peng Family’s seclusion.

The incident at Sanwol Demon Forest.

Zhongnan’s internal strife.

Namgung Sega’s internal discord.

The earth-shaking event at Jungeuk Peak.

The chaos at Ice Palace.

And finally, the calamity in Namman.

It was as if Bae Un-san had intentionally arranged for Won Pyeong-sam to seek out Ha Mu-baek.

The Haomun disaster was omitted.

There had been no clash of powerful forces then.

It had been Ha Mu-baek’s one-sided rampage.

Won Pyeong-sam carefully examined each piece of content.

The place where his gaze finally stopped.

It was the calamity in Namman.

‘A poison that even the Ten Thousand Poison Immunity cannot withstand…’

He knew such a poison well.

It would be poison essence.

And he also knew the power needed to handle poison essence.

One of the Eight Whips of Manhwang.

Tae .

That was exactly the power.

That’s why Won Pyeong-sam’s eyes were fixed only on the final content.

“I’ll have to look into this in more detail.”

Having made that decision, Won Pyeong-sam called for Yeong So-hyang.

It was to have her deliver the commission details to Hao-mun.

Not long after Bae Un-san departed, a messenger pigeon soared into the sky.

The messenger pigeon would probably arrive at Chang’an Headquarters before Bae Un-san.

Its contents were simple.

 

Investigate everything about the ominous events in Namman.

From beginning to end.

 

Hao-mun would be moving busily from now on.

Heavenly Poison Valley would also be included in that direction.

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