The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 453

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Chapter 453. That’s Just How the World Is

 

 

“What?”

Ha Mu-baek’s gaze turned to Han Seol-bing, who was staring intently at him.

“The world seems too unfair.”

Han Seol-bing said with a bitter smile.

Ha Mu-baek nodded.

“You’re right. It is unfair. That’s just how the world is.”

At Ha Mu-baek’s matter-of-fact statement,

Han Seol-bing was momentarily speechless and about to retort,

but Ha Mu-baek was a bit faster.

“While there was a child who had to hide and cover his mouth, secretly listening to his mother being violated and killed by those Blood Cult and Demon Cult bastards, there are also children who live in luxury under good parents. And there are children wandering as beggars, and children who beat up those beggars mercilessly.”

“Ah…”

Han Seol-bing couldn’t continue speaking.

Because she knew who that unfortunate child Ha Mu-baek spoke of so casually was.

Truly.

The world must have been a place filled with all kinds of injustice for young Ha Mu-baek.

To such a person,

she had been about to complain that he was too strong, and that no matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t become as strong as him,

that the world was unfair.

Han Seol-bing quietly closed her mouth.

“If Seol-ran hadn’t been there… I probably would have died that day too.”

If his parents hadn’t hidden Ha Mu-baek and Ha Seol-ran deep in the house, begging him to take care of Ha Seol-ran somehow,

if that hadn’t been the last words of his parents who died so cruelly and brutally,

Ha Mu-baek wouldn’t have forced himself to live through that harsh and difficult life.

Ha Mu-baek’s gaze turned toward where Sanwol Demon Forest was located.

They had gotten quite close by now.

If he ran at full speed in his current physical condition, it seemed like it would take just one day.

Ha Mu-baek circulated his internal energy to evaporate the sweat from his body and put on his outer garment.

“From now on, we run at full speed toward Sanwol Demon Forest.”

“What?”

Han Seol-bing asked in surprise at this completely different course of action.

“I have a bad feeling. It seems like an unpleasant energy is rising madly from that place.”

In the dark night sky,

it seemed as if an energy darker than the deep darkness was rising in thick clouds from somewhere in Sanwol Demon Forest.

 

***

 

The night was deep.

Everyone was sleeping deeply except for a few who stood night watch.

Though Sanwol Demon Forest had almost no jiangshi,

perhaps due to their tension, everyone was sleeping deeply despite camping on the forest floor.

Man Ya-do, who was checking around to confirm the condition of the night watchmen, let his gaze linger on where the Seventh Group members were sleeping before moving on.

‘Damn…’

Though it was regrettable,

there was nothing more he could do.

Not only were there Maengryong Corps members, but above all, these guys were stronger than expected.

Just as he was about to move elsewhere, planning for after they reached the main branch,

Ha Seol-ran suddenly opened her eyes wide and bolted upright.

“Dan, danger! Everyone needs to move quickly!”

She suddenly burst out with a sharp cry.

Man Ya-do looked at her with incredulous eyes.

‘Was she crazy?’

What kind of nonsense was this, suddenly doing that while sleeping well?

But then,

simultaneously with her cry,

the Seventh Group members around her bolted upright and urgently asked her.

“What’s wrong?”

Dang Jin-san asked urgently.

“Th, that way. Jiangshi are swarming from that direction.”

Ha Seol-ran answered frantically.

Her face was filled with terror.

“How many?”

“An enormous number. It’s like all the jiangshi that were in Sanwol Demon Forest are rushing over at once.”

Though she hadn’t been able to detect their presence when they came to Sanwol Demon Forest before,

judging from that experience,

with this many, it truly seemed like all the jiangshi that had disappeared from Sanwol Demon Forest were swarming over.

“All of them? Every single one?”

At Dang Jin-san’s question, Ha Seol-ran nodded.

At that answer, dismay appeared on the Seventh Group members’ faces.

All of them would mean

including all the Silent Iron jiangshi and Dark Blood jiangshi.

“More, more than that… there’s one incredibly strong jiangshi… that jiangshi is at the front moving very fast. We, we need to escape quickly.”

At this commotion, the Maengryong Corps members began waking up one by one and focusing on the conversation.

“How strong?”

Baek Ri-pyeong urgently interjected.

“Th, there are only… two people here who can handle it.”

At Ha Seol-ran’s answer, the Seventh Group members’ faces turned pale.

Just as Baek Ri-pyeong was about to say something,

“Hey! What nonsense are you all spouting right now! What’s this commotion during sleeping hours! Everyone go to sleep immediately. Stop this crazy talk!”

Man Ya-do angrily interjected.

However, no one paid attention to his words.

Instead,

they asked Ha Seol-ran again.

“What should we do?”

Yeon Ha-min’s calm question.

At her composure, Ha Seol-ran barely managed to calm her panic.

“Fi, first we need to gather as many people as possible. There are quite a lot of people who have entered Sanwol Demon Forest right now. The strongest person among them is over there.”

Ha Seol-ran pointed in one direction with her hand.

Yeon Ha-min nodded.

“You said they’re approaching at high speed, what’s the estimated time?”

“If we move at full speed from now, we should be able to join up and encounter them some time after that.”

“Good. Everyone heard that, right? Prepare and depart immediately.”

The Maengryong Corps began moving, completely ignoring Man Ya-do.

They didn’t know about Ha Seol-ran’s abilities,

Those who know that ability are only the Seventh Group and Ju U-myeong.

However, they knew two things.

That the Seventh Group guys were incredibly strong, and that they weren’t the type to talk nonsense.

That’s why they began to move in perfect unison.

“Look at this! What are you all doing! This is an order! Everyone stop! This is insubordination! I’ll punish you according to alliance law!”

Man Ya-do shouted with fierce momentum.

But no one followed his words.

The long period of group training they had undergone.

Because they trusted what the Seventh Group members had shown during that time.

Man Ya-do and his two subordinates couldn’t handle these people.

A full ninety-seven personnel.

Each and every one of them was strong.

The Maengryong Corps members who organized their positions in an instant.

Dang Jin-san’s gaze turned toward Ha Seol-ran, and she kicked off the ground and began to run.

With her in the lead, the Maengryong Corps rushed at full speed through Sanwol Demon Forest, which had fallen into deep darkness.

The three people from the Bongma Corps watched this scene blankly.

“Tch.”

There was no choice.

They had no option but to follow and run too.

Not only did they have the responsibility to lead those people.

But it was somehow unsettling for just the three of them to remain alone in the middle of Sanwol Demon Forest.

Because of what Ha Seol-ran had shouted.

 

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“Everyone get up.”

So Hwi-ung opened both eyes, raised his body, and spoke in a low voice.

The Hotian Dan organized their formation in an instant.

And the martial artists of the Bongma Corps also got up one by one.

The party from Seonyu Valley all got up as well.

People’s gazes turned toward him due to So Hwi-ung’s sudden action.

“Two groups are approaching this way. One is over there. Quite a distance away but moving at high speed. One is this way. Close but not very fast.”

The Hotian Dan’s energy immediately changed.

They began to emit a frosty momentum.

“This one is probably the Maengryong Corps we talked about earlier… but that one has a very ominous energy.”

When So Hwi-ung informed them of what he sensed with his energy perception.

Gongsun Mu-oe carefully spoke to Ma Jin-gi.

“Elder, would you be able to take a look?”

“It’s not difficult. Grand Valley Master.”

Ma Jin-gi, who answered thus, took out several talismans from his bosom and threw them into the air.

The talismans instantly burned away in flames.

At the same time, Ma Jin-gi chanted an incantation.

And his eyes emitted an intense light.

“Hmm.”

His face hardened stiffly after checking both directions.

Then Ma Jin-gi looked around in all directions of Sanwol Demon Forest.

“This side, as the Alliance Leader said, has young martial artists running at full speed. They seem to be running toward our location as their destination. They look desperate, as if they’ve sensed something.”

So Hwi-ung nodded slightly at Ma Jin-gi’s words.

“That side… they’re jiangshi. An enormous number. It seems like all the disappeared jiangshi have gathered together and are rushing over, and the entity leading them is tremendous. I think that entity might be the one that attacked the castle wall.”

Silence fell at Ma Jin-gi’s words.

“As expected, their target seems to be us.”

“Hmm…”

So Hwi-ung swallowed a groan.

“Most importantly, there are quite a few Bongma Corps martial artists scattered in that direction. They’re together with others…”

He pointed in five directions.

“This is troublesome.”

So Hwi-ung frowned.

As if they had been waiting.

For all the jiangshi to come rushing with the Myeolcheon Gangsi in the lead at a time like this.

So Hwi-ung looked around.

‘Can I really block them?’

If it were just one Myeolcheon Gangsi, he might manage.

But if it’s all the jiangshi in Sanwol Demon Forest.

There would be Silent Iron jiangshi and Dark Blood jiangshi too.

“Everyone should evacuate outside the western castle wall.”

Eventually.

So Hwi-ung, who had organized his thoughts, opened his mouth.

“Since the reinforcement of the spell techniques hasn’t been completed yet. That entity might be able to cross over.”

So Hwi-ung answered Ma Jin-gi’s words.

“I’ll handle blocking that thing myself.”

So Hwi-ung said with gleaming eyes.

“Dam Mu-heun.”

“Yes.”

Dam Mu-heun answered with resolute eyes at So Hwi-ung’s call.

“Inform the Bongma Corps and the trainees from Gyoryong Hall of the current situation and help them retreat beyond Sanwol Great Wall as quickly as possible. Move together with four Hotian Dan members.”

“If, if you do that…”

Only six Hotian Dan members would remain around So Hwi-ung.

“Whether it’s eleven or six, there’s not much difference.”

So Hwi-ung spoke decisively.

“After confirming the exact direction with Elder Ma, depart immediately.”

At So Hwi-ung’s instruction.

Dam Mu-heun had no choice but to comply.

After confirming the more precise location from Ma Jin-gi, he and the four Hotian Dan members bowed deeply toward So Hwi-ung.

“Please take care of yourself…”

With those words, their figures disappeared.

“We should also hurry and move.”

One Myeolcheon Gangsi might be manageable.

But if all the jiangshi in this place came rushing in a group.

Even So Hwi-ung would have no choice but to receive help from the castle wall.

“Then what about the Maengryong Corps that’s coming this way…”

Pung Geon carefully opened his mouth.

That Maengryong Corps would probably be the friends newly assigned this time.

It was natural to be worried.

So Hwi-ung’s gaze turned toward Ma Jin-gi.

“Looking at the eyes of the one leading the way at the front, I don’t know the reason, but they’re definitely sensing us and moving. If we change direction, they’ll chase after us that way.”

At Ma Jin-gi’s assurance, So Hwi-ung nodded and then.

“Move at full speed toward the nearest castle wall!”

His command fell.

They moved quickly.

The vanguard was Gongsun Mu-oe and Ma Jin-gi.

Since the effects of the mystical arts were still ongoing, her eyes were the sharpest among them.

So Hwi-ung brought up the rear.

In case those creatures caught up from behind.

He had to block them.

 

“They changed direction. It seems like they’re trying to move toward the castle wall.”

At Ha Seol-ran’s words, Yeon Ha-min beside her nodded.

“The mystical arts of Sanwol Great Wall. They’re trying to use that. It’s a wise decision.”

While heading to Sanwol Demon Forest.

They had heard a general explanation about Sanwol Great Wall from Man Ya-do.

Among that information were the mystical arts of the Great Wall.

At Yeon Ha-min’s words, Ha Seol-ran changed direction with a much more relieved expression.

Following her lead, the entire Maengryong Corps changed direction.

“What’s the distance?”

At Yeon Ha-min’s question, Ha Seol-ran concentrated her mind.

“At our current speed…”

Using her Ki Sense spread throughout Sanwol Demon Forest.

The speed and direction of their group that included the strong individual.

And the speed and direction of the jiangshi horde.

After sensing and calculating all of that.

“The jiangshi will come rushing in one to two intervals after we reach the castle wall.”

Yeon Ha-min nodded at Ha Seol-ran’s answer.

“Good. Let’s move as fast as possible.”

“Right.”

At those words, Ha Seol-ran kicked off the ground even more vigorously.

Suddenly, her face turned deathly pale.

“Th-th-this is…”

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