The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 465

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Chapter 465. C-Cursed…

 

 

Perplexity appeared on Yeon Ha-min’s face as she listened to Ha Seol-ran’s story.

The Myeolcheon Gangsi that had turned into ice blocks were rescued by another Myeolcheon Gangsi and taken away.

But instead, the presence of the ice blocks was disappearing.

And.

That Myeolcheon Gangsi that appeared like a storm at the end and disappeared like a storm had become stronger?

If these two events had occurred simultaneously.

There was a possibility to speculate.

But that made absolutely no sense.

Though Yeon Ha-min’s knowledge wasn’t vast or broad, it absolutely made no sense.

In the end.

Since she had no choice but to seek advice from someone with more knowledge than herself.

Yeon Ha-min looked around.

Wi Ji-gun, from whom she could seek advice, was in the midst of circulating his energy.

Since they didn’t know when that monster might appear again, he was trying to recover his internal energy as much as possible.

Instructor Han was the same.

The person who caught her eye was Namgung Yu.

It was her.

The talented daughter of Namgung Sega and the strategist of Jamryong Corps 1st Unit.

She decided to seek advice from her.

Since she thought that woman, who had grown up as the eldest daughter of Namgung Sega, would have much broader knowledge than herself, who hadn’t received proper treatment in the Yeon Family.

“What’s the matter?”

Namgung Yu asked, looking at the two women approaching her.

Namgung Yu, Yeon Ha-min, Ha Seol-ran.

As the three women gathered.

Despite the current circumstances.

She could feel glances stealing looks from here and there.

The Gyoryong Hall cadets and Maengryong Corps members showed somewhat familiar reactions.

But the Bongma Corps members couldn’t turn their eyes away at all.

It wasn’t just stealing glances.

They were staring openly and intensely.

Even in this urgent situation where their lives could be at stake at any moment.

It was the beauty of these three people that made them forget even such crisis.

Yeon Ha-min carefully explained what Ha Seol-ran had sensed.

After hearing the entire story, Namgung Yu nodded.

Because she could understand why they had come to find her.

“Ha-min. You’re wondering if that jiangshi absorbed the energy of other jiangshi, aren’t you? Like the legendary Absorption Technique?”

At Namgung Yu’s question, Yeon Ha-min nodded slightly, showing her agreement.

“The Absorption Technique is practically a legendary martial art… I couldn’t tell if it was really possible for a jiangshi to use such a method… I was wondering if Namgung Sega might have records about it, so I came to seek advice.”

Namgung Yu’s face also turned serious.

“We don’t.”

A short answer.

“But I think your idea is correct.”

The words she added afterward.

“Considering that jiangshi’s behavior, there’s no other possibility that comes to mind.”

The eyes of the two women met in midair.

Soon Namgung Yu looked toward the castle wall.

“We have no choice but to ask the person here with the highest knowledge in that field.”

Just as Namgung Yu said this and was about to kick off the ground toward the castle wall.

“Oh…”

Ha Seol-ran let out another exclamation of surprise.

“What’s wrong? Don’t tell me?”

Yeon Ha-min asked urgently.

Ha Seol-ran nodded.

“One more has disappeared… and it’s become stronger again.”

This meant there were four remaining ice block presences.

At this point.

It wasn’t speculation.

It was certainty.

“The time it took…”

Yeon Ha-min estimated the time between earlier and now.

“Half an hour.”

She could calculate it quickly.

It was truly a short time.

It meant that in just half an hour, it had absorbed one jiangshi and become stronger.

Since there were four ice blocks remaining.

It meant that after two more hours, that monster would absorb all the remaining jiangshi and become even stronger.

And if it appeared here again?

“This is serious. You two inform Hotian Dan about this as well.”

Namgung Yu, who had watched the entire conversation, said this and kicked off the ground.

Since a dangerous and urgent situation had arrived.

Namgung Yu flew off to seek advice from Ma Jin-gi, while Ha Seol-ran and Yeon Ha-min headed straight to Dam Mu-heun.

Dam Mu-heun’s complexion was already rigidly hardened.

“Ha Seol-ran. Everything you said is true, right?”

Dam Mu-heun had already been listening to their entire conversation.

Since they had only been whispering without any special ability to block sound waves.

Dam Mu-heun’s senses, which had been monitoring the surrounding situation, couldn’t avoid hearing it.

A heavy atmosphere settled on his face.

And he glanced at Ha Mu-baek.

“Sigh. That guy at this important time. He’s not being helpful. Really.”

It was a complaint-like muttering.

It wasn’t sincere.

If it hadn’t been for Ha Mu-baek, everyone here might not have known what would have happened to them against those six Myeolcheon Gangsi.

It was just frustrating that the person he wanted to rely on.

Was so deeply absorbed in energy circulation that he showed no movement at all.

 

***

 

He brought down his sword once more.

The half-split world reconnected again.

The dantian that had lost massive amounts of internal energy was quickly filled with energy again.

This was possible because it was a world of mental imagery.

Confirming that sensation, Ha Mu-baek gradually increased the internal energy he put into his sword.

He approached cautiously, worried that his dantian might be empty after awakening.

Confirming that the energy he was currently using had no connection whatsoever to the energy of his physical body in reality.

Through that process, Ha Mu-baek was able to grasp one clue.

“Pour everything out. That’s what you mean, isn’t it?”

The degree of cracking gradually grew larger.

Then at some point, it stopped.

Even pouring in more energy yielded the same result.

Then.

Ha Mu-baek pondered the trigger that had brought him into this mental world.

His thoughts reached his own condition.

His dantian, completely emptied after pouring out all his energy.

In that state, while circulating energy and achieving enlightenment, he had fallen into the mental image world.

In the end.

Nine parts. Abyss.

His thoughts reached the realization that what this wanted from him was a single strike that poured out all his energy.

Ha Mu-baek raised his sword.

He truly scraped together every bit of energy and infused it into the sword.

And brought it down.

Crack.

The world splits.

It tears apart.

If it split completely, he would be able to leave this place.

That’s what he thought.

But he couldn’t cut it completely.

He had cut nine parts, but one part remained.

Ha Mu-baek’s eyes widened.

“What?”

Energy surged up instantly at that moment.

“This isn’t it?”

Ha Mu-baek frowned.

Soon he shook his head.

No.

He had to have confidence in his conclusion.

Therefore, Ha Mu-baek raised his sword again and pushed in all his energy.

And.

Brought it down again.

As expected, the world only split up to nine parts.

Ha Mu-baek, still holding his sword.

Concentrated on his interior.

Inside his body that had poured out all its strength.

‘Something remains?’

And he was surprised.

Though he thought he had poured out all his energy.

Very small amounts of energy remained here and there in his blood meridians.

The moment he sensed that, his energy recovered instantly again.

“Is it because of this?”

Ha Mu-baek muttered quietly.

Indeed, he had not been wrong.

He simply hadn’t been able to pour out all his energy at once.

Having found the path, he would simply move forward.

Ha Mu-baek once again infused all his strength into the sword.

 

***

 

“Kekeke.”

Laughter continuously flowed from Dokgo Ya-pae’s mouth.

Now only one remained.

Even now, his entire body overflowed with power.

With his current self.

It seemed possible to eliminate the entire Sanwol Demon Forest by himself.

“With this power.”

Dokgo Ya-pae looked toward one side of the forest.

It was where the humans were gathered.

Now the humans in that place seemed laughable.

It felt like he could kill them all in one strike.

Three people would be slightly bothersome.

But even that would end once he absorbed this last one.

The final jiangshi.

Deung Ang-cheon.

Still wore the same shocked expression from when he was overwhelmed by Ha Mu-baek’s energy.

The ice chunk created by Ha Mu-baek’s ice energy hadn’t melted even a little yet.

His shocked expression now.

Almost seemed to tremble with rage at Dokgo Ya-pae’s betrayal.

Though he was completely silent and wouldn’t know what was currently happening.

“Let’s see.”

Dokgo Ya-pae lightly waved his hand.

Crack.

A different result appeared than before.

He hadn’t simply split the ice into two pieces.

The ice itself that had been encasing Deung Ang-cheon shattered into fragments and scattered.

Ice fragments flying into midair sparkled in the sunlight.

Glittering ice fragments swirled down around the two hideous jiangshi.

It was an incomparably bizarre sight.

“Ugh…”

Letting out a groan.

Deung Ang-cheon soon came to his senses.

Since he had maintained his reason while immediately reviving after being split in half by Ha Mu-baek.

As soon as he regained consciousness, he looked around in surprise.

“Th-this is…”

Deung Ang-cheon confirmed the appearance of Dokgo Ya-pae before his eyes.

“D-did the Guardian Deity slaughter all those bastards?”

His voice trembled.

Though he was filled with joy.

Soon he realized something was strange.

The surrounding scenery was different.

“Tell me in detail what happened.”

At those words filled with tremendous energy.

Deung Ang-cheon told everything as if entranced.

Dokgo Ya-pae listened quietly to those words and nodded.

“Hmm.”

Soon he fell into thought.

About their future course of action.

“First Guardian God. What on earth is this….”

Deung Ang-cheon, who had told everything while crushed by Dokgo Ya-pae’s overwhelming presence, completely regained his senses and looked around before closing his mouth.

Only now did it come into view.

Split into two pieces.

The sight of the five Guardian Deities whose bodies were cut in half and completely dead.

They were unable to awaken.

Since the core of their qi energy had disappeared.

“Wh-what on earth….”

An unbelievable thought came to mind.

But Deung Ang-cheon desperately denied it.

Thud.

Dokgo Ya-pae’s hand was embedded in his abdomen.

That’s when he realized.

That the unbelievable thought.

Was actually what had really happened.

That the First Guardian God before his eyes.

Had devoured the core pills that were the source of the other Guardian Deities’ qi.

“Why, why… did you devour them…?”

Deung Ang-cheon asked with a groan.

He would be annihilated now, but he was still curious.

Why.

A Guardian Deity.

Would devour other Guardian Deities.

“So you were Il-no who used the Great Blood Technique. I find you curious. To think there was such a method but you didn’t use it. Kekeke.”

“You cursed….”

The word “forbidden” couldn’t fully escape his lips.

It was something he learned when becoming a Guardian Deity.

He also knew why it was forbidden.

“Kekeke. Can you still say such things after seeing how you and I look now? In this form where we exist as jiangshi after dying? We are already cursed. Kikiki.”

It was laughter filled with madness.

“I accidentally absorbed a jiangshi’s inner core and realized. That at the end of this path lies the ultimate….”

“Ul-ultimate?”

“Yes. The ultimate of the cult. Blood God! That I can reach the Blood God!”

“You’re… insane….”

Deung Ang-cheon tried to say more.

Squelch.

Dokgo Ya-pae pulled out Deung Ang-cheon’s inner core and brought it to his mouth.

As the inner core was absorbed by Dokgo Ya-pae.

The light disappeared from Deung Ang-cheon’s eyes.

Though it was a light full of evil, even that vanished.

Becoming truly a corpse.

Deung Ang-cheon collapsed with a thud.

A massive storm swirled around Dokgo Ya-pae’s body as he absorbed all the qi.

“Uhahahahahaha!!!”

Deung Ang-cheon’s mad laughter burst forth.

And changes occurred in his body.

He who had been a gaunt jiangshi.

Before long.

Young and taut skin.

A solid muscular physique.

He had become indistinguishable from a human.

However.

His entire skin was blood-red.

His eyes were also filled with bloody light.

“As expected. Hehehe. Blood God. This body is truly the Blood God. Kahahaha!!!”

After completing all the changes.

Dokgo Ya-pae, who had confirmed his body, looked toward where Ha Mu-baek’s group was.

Having already heard all about the battle from Deung Ang-cheon.

“How dare you interfere with this true Blood Cult’s ceremony. I’ll make you feel true despair.”

It was a mutter filled with rage.

He turned his gaze.

That place was not Sanwol Demon Forest.

Far away.

Luoyang.

The place where the force called Jeongcheon Alliance, their main base, was located.

Several years ago.

They had destroyed the cult and brought down the main branch.

First, he would destroy their main base.

Step.

Dokgo Ya-pae began walking.

 

***

 

He gathered all the qi from his dantian as well as all the blood meridians throughout his body.

Not just the blood meridians.

He gathered all the qi from even the thread-thin cleansed meridians.

To the point where he had no strength left to even hold a sword.

Now.

The qi remaining in Ha Mu-baek’s body.

Was only a handful of qi that functioned to maintain his life.

If he gathered even this.

Ha Mu-baek would meet death the moment he brought down his sword.

Putting all his qi into the sword like that.

He lightly brought it down.

Just as Wuji had done.

Slice.

A small sound was heard.

Crack.

The world split perfectly.

At that moment.

The sensation that enveloped his entire body.

The sensation of the abyss from putting all his qi into one sword.

And bringing it down.

Ha Mu-baek trembled all over.

‘Was this it?’

When he surrendered to the sudden ecstasy that came.

Gradually.

Sensation returned.

And he felt all the surrounding circumstances.

Along with that.

Even his Dantian filled with Internal Energy.

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