The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 449

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Chapter 449. Still Far to Go

 

 

Deep night.

“Is that place Cheondok Valley?”

Won Pyeong-sam climbed up a tall tree and looked at the place where halls with lit fires were gathered.

The ominous incident in Namman.

This was the place he had found after receiving the investigation results.

They said Cheondok Valley seemed to be connected to that incident.

Around the time that incident occurred.

They said all the disciples of Cheondok Valley had left the valley and scattered.

Cheondok Valley had become almost empty.

Because of that, Haomun couldn’t approach Cheondok Valley at the time and only collected information about the atmosphere there.

The Beggar Sect was probably the same.

“Hmm.”

Won Pyeong-sam, who was silently watching Cheondok Valley, tilted his head.

No matter how much he looked, he couldn’t feel any trace of Manhwang at all.

Yeong So-hyang stood quietly beside him.

Won Pyeong-sam, who had been thinking for a while with his arms crossed, came to a simple conclusion.

“I can just ask.”

He lightly kicked off the tree and launched his body.

Yeong So-hyang followed behind him.

Her martial arts level had risen remarkably.

The movement of the two was both stealthy and fast.

Cheondok Valley’s perimeter was breached helplessly.

After entering Cheondok Valley, Won Pyeong-sam spread his ki sense.

The strongest person would be the valley lord or someone close to that position.

Won Pyeong-sam, who quickly surveyed, headed toward the hall located in the center of Cheondok Valley.

Based on the location, it must be the valley lord.

Won Pyeong-sam’s steps were unhesitating, and Yeong So-hyang followed behind without missing a beat.

There were occasionally warriors standing guard, but they easily deceived them and passed by.

It was the same at the hall.

Instead of entering through the entrance, they climbed up the wall.

The top floor they reached that way.

The window opened silently, and Won Pyeong-sam and Yeong So-hyang entered inside.

Only then did he sense the presence of intruders.

Yeo Hong-gi, the lord of Cheondok Valley, was startled.

He was still staying in the valley to handle the aftermath of the recent disaster.

Sudden intruders.

“Who are you?”

He shouted loudly, but his cry was blocked by the energy barrier Won Pyeong-sam had deployed, and no one could hear it.

“You’re Yeo Hong-gi, the lord of Cheondok Valley, right?”

The information Bae Un-san had provided also contained detailed information about Cheondok Valley.

Won Pyeong-sam looked at Yeo Hong-gi indifferently.

Receiving that gaze, Yeo Hong-gi trembled all over.

‘What the…’

Because he felt a strong power he couldn’t handle.

“What business brings you to seek this valley lord?”

Won Pyeong-sam was slightly surprised by Yeo Hong-gi’s reaction.

“You have the leisure to speak?”

Even though his aura was completely dominating this room.

That guy was terrified, but he was maintaining his reason.

How?

‘It’s scary, but compared to Ha Mu-baek… that monster bastard…’

The reason was simple.

Because Yeo Hong-gi had experienced a stronger and more frightening aura before.

“Please state your business, sir.”

Yeo Hong-gi asked while pretending to be as calm as possible.

However, he couldn’t stop his hands from trembling finely.

Won Pyeong-sam looked at Yeo Hong-gi with eyes full of doubt.

But remembering his purpose, he asked again.

“The ominous incident in Namman. How much were you involved with that?”

“Hmm…”

Yeo Hong-gi closed his mouth.

A mysterious master who suddenly appeared was asking about that incident.

What could be the reason?

No, where did these people come from?

While he was thinking of all sorts of questions.

The nature of the aura dominating the room changed.

It began to take on an increasingly dense killing intent.

“Urgh.”

Yeo Hong-gi had no choice but to react to that killing intent.

“My patience isn’t very deep, you see.”

“Where have you come from, sir?”

“That’s not something you need to know. Just answer what I’m asking.”

“The, the Master of Poison Palace… invaded this valley…”

Yeo Hong-gi answered with a trembling voice, barely managing to speak.

He had decided to hide everything he could for now.

In fact, there weren’t many who properly knew about what happened that day.

Even the Beggar Sect wouldn’t be able to find out.

That’s why such a decision was possible.

“The Master of Poison Palace attacked, so how are you this intact?”

“Ha, Ha Mu-baek. He, he protected us…”

“Tsk.”

At that answer, killing intent flowed from Yeong So-hyang’s body as she stood quietly.

She already knew from the information Bae Un-san had given that he was involved.

Nevertheless, the moment she heard his name, killing intent surged up.

It was a change that occurred as her martial arts level increased.

“So? Did that Master of Poison Palace die? What did you do with the corpse?”

He had to check even the corpse.

Even if he died, Manhwang’s energy wouldn’t disappear so easily.

Even a faint echo would remain.

“He, he fled and Ha Mu-baek chased him but fell off a cliff, I heard.”

“Where is that place?”

“An, Angry Dragon Rapids…”

However, there was no way Won Pyeong-sam would know that place name.

Won Pyeong-sam tilted his head in confusion.

Yeo Hong-gi quickly added an explanation.

“If, if you go in that direction, you’ll come to a cliff with rapids flowing below. That place is the Angry Dragon Rapids.”

“Hmm.”

Won Pyeong-sam stared intently at Yeo Hong-gi.

His eyes were trembling violently, but he wasn’t lying.

“Let’s go.”

After briefly speaking to Yeong So-hyang, he leaped into the air. Yeong So-hyang followed behind him.

Right after the two disappeared.

The aura and killing intent that had dominated Yeo Hong-gi’s office vanished.

“Huff. Huff. Huff.”

Yeo Hong-gi let out rough breaths.

“Where on earth did such a master come from…”

He was someone whose identity was completely unknowable.

Even from the aura he emanated, his origins couldn’t be guessed.

With the Demon Cult and Blood Cult gone from Gangho, what other group was trying to emerge?

Even so.

“Ha Mu-baek… He was weaker than that monster.”

Yeo Hong-gi had researched and finally created the Mountain Dissolution Poison to scatter his internal energy.

But encountering such an enemy.

Without realizing it, he found himself thinking of Ha Mu-baek.

 

The place Yeo Hong-gi had told them about wasn’t very far. Using lightness skills to run, they could arrive before long.

In the thick darkness, the sound of rough water could be heard.

“This is the place?”

Darkness was no obstacle at all.

Won Pyeong-sam clearly saw the rough waves below the cliff.

“Indeed, worthy of being called the Angry Dragon Rapids…”

As he muttered this, his head suddenly turned to one side.

There was something he sensed with his qi perception.

A light of ecstasy rose in his eyes.

“He, he, here it was.”

His voice came out trembling.

“Have you found it? Master.”

Yeong So-hyang asked carefully.

Won Pyeong-sam nodded his head.

“Yes. Manhwang. It’s a trace of Manhwang. Faint, but I can definitely sense it.”

The place where Won Pyeong-sam’s gaze stopped.

That was where the entrance to the dark cave that Ha Mu-baek had entered and exited was hidden.

 

***

 

“Stop here. Today we camp at this location. Set up the night watch rotation and take meals and rest.”

Red Squad First Unit Squad Leader, Man Ya-do.

After giving orders to the Maengryong Corps martial artists, he settled in a suitable spot with his two subordinates to rest.

He watched with curiosity as the Maengryong Corps moved in perfect order while maintaining formation during their rest.

“These ones are different from the previous guys?”

Man Ya-do’s muttering.

The two Bongma Members nodded their heads.

The Red Squad was responsible for escorting the Maengryong Corps to the Bongma Corps every year.

It was a duty that rotated among squad leaders, and this year was the First Unit’s turn.

These were clearly different from the Maengryong Corps they had seen so far.

And.

Man Ya-do’s gaze stopped at one place.

At the end of it.

There were Yeon Ha-min and Ha Seol-ran with their faces covered by veils.

“Who would have thought there would be such beauties in the mere Maengryong Corps.”

His eyes instantly gleamed.

Though they covered their faces with veils, their beauty could never be hidden.

“That’s right.”

“Shall we put them under us?”

The two subordinates reacted immediately.

This year there were ninety-seven instead of a hundred, so they had combined two units of seven into one.

That was exactly where those two women belonged.

“Of course.”

Man Ya-do answered with a sly smile.

From the beginning, there was an implicit rule among them that gave priority to choose Maengryong Corps members belonging to the unit that had escorted them.

‘Lucky me.’

Whatever he was thinking.

The suspicious smile hanging on Man Ya-do’s lips deepened.

There was someone watching this scene intently.

Wi Ji-gun.

He was secretly following them.

He immediately recognized what emotion had risen on their faces.

Lust. Sexual desire.

Though they were trying to hide it, that primitive desire was surely what it was.

‘Tsk. If that guy Mu-baek knew, he’d be radiating killing intent. The smell of blood better not get thicker.’

Though Wi Ji-gun thought this.

He too was currently struggling to suppress his killing intent.

One of the targets of their lust was his disciple and Ha Mu-baek’s younger sibling, Ha Seol-ran.

‘Come to think of it.’

Wi Ji-gun recalled a fact he had forgotten.

He remembered it while worrying about the smell of blood from Ha Mu-baek’s anger because of those bastards.

‘I didn’t teach him the mental cultivation method…’

Part of the purpose of seeking the sect was to teach him that.

After spending a long time in the Archive Hall, he had uncharacteristically forgotten while listening to stories about it.

Above all.

If he had spent such a long time in the Archive Hall, Wi Ji-gun thought that Gae Pa Jo-sa might have taught him.

Thinking carefully, Ha Mu-baek hadn’t mentioned anything about the mental cultivation method.

‘I should check.’

Heaven Sensing Narak Mental Cultivation Method.

A mental cultivation method solely for sensing the appearance of Manhwang’s fragments.

It had been passed down through generations, but had shown no reaction for generations.

Recently, Wi Ji-gun had felt a reaction for the first time and intended to pass it on as soon as Ha Mu-baek’s bloody scent faded.

The time in the Archive Hall had made Wi Ji-gun temporarily forget this important matter.

‘I’m getting old too.’

A bitter smile appeared on Wi Ji-gun’s lips.

 

***

 

Yeon Ja-gyeong was devoting himself to cultivation today as well.

After meeting Ha Mu-baek.

Even more.

More.

A sense of purpose to become stronger had emerged.

As if forgetting his old age.

He was immersed in cultivation samadhi to become even stronger.

The moment he began energy circulation.

Today as well, without fail.

A voice was heard.

[Accept my power. Heaven overwhelms all things.]

Yeon Ja-gyeong still turned away from that voice.

At some point, the two voices had reduced to one.

That fact made Yeon Ja-gyeong turn away even more.

Because he thought it was a heart demon.

He believed he had overcome one of the two heart demons, so now only one voice could be heard.

‘A mere heart demon.’

Yeon Ja-gyeong fell deeper into energy circulation.

The voice continued to be heard, but Yeon Ja-gyeong thought he couldn’t hear it.

 

***

 

“Aren’t we getting too delayed at this rate?”

Han Seol-bing asked Ha Mu-baek, who was stopping for cultivation again today without fail.

Though the Alliance Leader was said to be in Sanwol Demon Forest.

She was practically the only person who had directly witnessed the Myeolcheon Jiangshi.

Except for Ha Mu-baek.

That’s why she was worried.

Whether the Alliance Leader could really handle the Myeolcheon Jiangshi.

“This is also important work.”

Ha Mu-baek answered indifferently.

It was because he trusted his Master, but he didn’t go as far as to say that.

“Just how much stronger are you trying to become?”

Han Seol-bing asked while shaking her head as if she couldn’t stop him.

“I’m not trying to become stronger. It’s a process of returning to normal.”

Ha Mu-baek answered as if annoyed.

Han Seol-bing tilted her head at the unexpected answer, mulling over its meaning.

Her eyes widened in surprise.

“You mean you’ve already become stronger?”

So surprised was she that her voice came out sharply.

The story of a monster like Ha Mu-baek trying to return his body to normal meant that some balance had been disrupted.

In such cases, there were two possibilities.

Either he had become weaker, or he had become stronger.

No matter how she looked at him, he didn’t seem to have gotten weaker.

Which meant he had become stronger.

He truly was a human for whom even the word ‘monster’ was insufficient.

“Just how strong are you trying to become?”

Han Seol-bing asked as if fed up.

“I still have a long way to go.”

Ha Mu-baek answered while thinking of Mugeuk’s Sword.

Because he had truly only just begun to catch up to the end of that shadow, even slightly.

‘If I had erased the scent of blood faster…’

He would have met Wuji sooner, and would have learned of such a realm’s existence much earlier…

Ha Mu-baek, who was taking off his upper garment, paused.

‘Come to think of it, Master said there was a new mind technique I should learn after erasing the scent of blood…’

The One Sword that Wuji had shown him.

He had forgotten that fact while cultivating the Nine Severing Abyss.

And only now did he remember it.

‘I’m foolish too…’

He thought he should ask his Master to teach him as soon as they arrived at Sanwol Demon Forest, and grasped his sword.

At this pace, seven more days.

That should be enough time to reach Sanwol Demon Forest.

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