The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 474

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Chapter 474. I’m Sorry

 

 

The four members of the Blood Cult Ten Elders who had been charging toward Ha Mu-baek.

They made eye contact with Ha Mu-baek.

At that moment.

They flinched.

Their instincts told them to stop, but.

Knowing that stopping now would lead to nothing good.

They gritted their teeth.

Overcoming their instincts, they swung their weapons to the very end.

Kwaaaaang!!!

A tremendous explosion erupted.

They had struck Ha Mu-baek, who was lying on the ground, precisely.

However.

The four men’s eyes widened at what was revealed.

Ha Mu-baek was still lying down, looking at them.

But.

Their weapons were blocked at a height of one inch above Ha Mu-baek’s body, unable to advance any further.

“B-Body Protection Energy…?”

Pal-no muttered in disbelief.

Ha Mu-baek slowly raised his body.

He grinned wickedly as he looked at the four men.

“It’s been a while, hasn’t it? Really nice to see you. Fucking hell.”

Profanity filled with pent-up emotions flowed from Ha Mu-baek’s mouth.

The four men trembled at those words.

Without realizing it, they hesitantly stepped backward.

It was an instinctive movement, like prey encountering a predator.

This time, they couldn’t overcome their instincts.

“I dealt with that Tenth Elder bastard last time. Are you four all that’s left?”

Ha Mu-baek asked them.

But no answer came.

It couldn’t be helped.

They were completely frozen by the tremendous qi aura Ha Mu-baek was emanating.

The internal energy Ha Mu-baek had currently recovered was about twenty percent of his total internal energy.

That was to be expected, as even for Ha Mu-baek, there were limits to how much he could recover in just over an hour.

Nevertheless, it was enough to emit a qi aura that overwhelmed them.

And the single Body Protection Energy that had blocked their combined attack.

That was exactly his limit.

If an actual battle broke out with those four.

It seemed it could become quite a difficult fight.

That’s why.

Ha Mu-baek was wearing an even more relaxed expression.

What he needed right now was time.

“H-how… how can this be possible?”

Il-no muttered in disbelief.

“After fighting the Supreme Cult Leader, you still have this much strength left? That’s impossible!”

Sam-no stomped the ground.

Convulsively rebelling against the terrifying qi energy that was binding him, he swung his blade.

Clang!

Once again, it was blocked by the Body Protection Energy.

“Hm?”

A gleam appeared in Pal-no’s eyes.

He could see that the Body Protection Energy, which had been incredibly solid just moments before.

Was now slightly shaking from Sam-no’s single strike.

‘Wait. That guy. That’s Ha Mu-baek.’

And then a sudden realization dawned on him.

‘Why is that bastard acting like this?’

The question that followed.

Pal-no.

The Ha Mu-baek he knew.

If they were right in front of him, he would have immediately drawn his sword and tried to cut off their heads.

After all, Ninth Elder had lost his life to that bastard’s hands in exactly that way.

But he was just watching them while emanating a terrifying qi aura?

And the Body Protection Energy had shaken?

“Fucking hell. Where do you get off bluffing!”

Pal-no, who had figured everything out, charged toward Ha Mu-baek while manifesting his sword aura.

“F-Fourth Brother!”

The other three men were startled.

Clang!

His sword was blocked by the Body Protection Energy, but.

Pal-no continued swinging his sword without rest.

At his shout, at his actions.

Sam-no also realized Ha Mu-baek’s current state and swung his blade again.

When the two men’s weapons struck Ha Mu-baek’s Body Protection Energy.

Ha Mu-baek’s sword moved.

As if shooing away annoying flies.

Clang clang clang!

Pal-no and Sam-no were sent flying backward.

“Urgh.”

Pal-no, who had gotten back up, charged toward Ha Mu-baek again with fighting spirit burning in his eyes.

Sam-no did the same.

“Fourth Brother!”

Il-no cried out in alarm.

“Now’s our chance! This bastard is completely drained right now!”

Pal-no shouted as if frustrated and swung his sword.

At those words.

Yuk-no also stomped the ground.

Because he could see it too.

However, only Il-no couldn’t do the same.

‘Even this could be that bastard’s scheme…’

Having been deceived by Ha Mu-baek so many times.

He simply couldn’t bring himself to move.

That bastard who had been lying on the ground at first.

He had clearly thought his strength was completely drained, but hadn’t he blocked their attacks with that terrifying Body Protection Energy?

They had clearly thought all his strength was drained, yet hadn’t he blocked their attacks with that terrifying protective energy?

So.

Even that current appearance.

Looked like Ha Mu-baek’s trap.

This was why Il-no couldn’t move rashly, unlike his disciples.

Ha Mu-baek was moving his sword to block the combined attack of the three people.

Blood Cult Ten Elders.

A title given to the ten strongest people in the Blood Cult.

Because they were the strongest.

These were those who had risen to the position of Guardian.

Among them, Il-no had the special ability called jiangshi arts.

But the other nine were different.

Only Yuk-no’s deep knowledge of poison was different.

Whoosh.

Powder scattered through the air.

Because he didn’t know that Ha Mu-baek was immune to all poisons.

Yuk-no had released poison.

They were desperate now.

They felt that if not now, there would be no chance to eliminate Ha Mu-baek.

It was a fierce battle.

Time passed in an instant.

About half an hour.

During that time, Ha Mu-baek recovered his internal energy at a rapid pace.

From one-tenth, it had become three-tenths.

‘This much should be enough.’

Ha Mu-baek grinned wickedly.

It was an eerie smile.

Il-no urgently shouted.

“D-dodge!!!!”

Swish.

However.

The single strike that Ha Mu-baek’s sword unleashed.

With that one move.

Puhahahaha!

Fountains of blood erupted from the three people’s chests.

“Tsk. Too shallow.”

He had intended to cut them down in one blow.

But it only ended up slashing their chests.

However.

Even that was a fatal wound.

The three people looked at Ha Mu-baek with disbelieving eyes, staggered, and collapsed.

“A-as expected…”

Il-no trembled all over.

Ha Mu-baek looked at him.

“Il-no. You think too much, just like before. Well, that’s probably why you survived until the end.”

“Grrr.”

Il-no infused internal energy into the blade in his hand.

Bright red gang qi surged up.

Manifesting his blade aura, he launched his body toward Ha Mu-baek, but.

Thunk.

Ha Mu-baek’s Soul-Shattering technique.

With that single move, his heart was pierced through.

“T-this can’t be…”

Eyes filled with resentment.

All the deeds he had done flashed through his mind like a revolving lantern.

“T-the Blood Cult…”

Swish.

Ha Mu-baek’s sword moved next, severing his neck.

Thud.

A futile death.

Ha Mu-baek looked around.

The three people with slashed chests had already died as well.

“Just to be safe.”

Flames flickered to life in Ha Mu-baek’s hand.

The fire energy that flew toward the four corpses blazed fiercely.

And began burning their bodies.

“Only that place remains.”

Ha Mu-baek’s gaze turned toward the entrance they had emerged from.

Then he shifted his gaze.

There was Wi Ji-gun’s form rapidly approaching at high speed.

Behind him were Han Seol-bing and Ha Seol-ran.

And the Seventh Group cadets along with the Namgung siblings.

A smile formed on Ha Mu-baek’s face again.

It was a completely different smile from when he had faced the Blood Cult Ten Elders moments ago.

“Are you alright?”

Wi Ji-gun’s gaze turned to the four places where flames still hadn’t died out.

“I’m a bit late. I’m sorry.”

At Wi Ji-gun’s words.

“No, Master. I’m fine.”

Ha Mu-baek answered with a relaxed expression.

“Elder Brother!!”

Then Ha Seol-ran urgently threw herself into Ha Mu-baek’s embrace.

This was already the umpteenth time in these past few days.

For Ha Seol-ran.

Truly.

These few days had felt like years.

How many times her heart had been on edge.

Ha Seol-ran, buried deep in Ha Mu-baek’s chest, listened to her brother’s heartbeat.

And finally calmed her trembling heart.

She hadn’t known.

When she was receiving treatment on Cheongran Island.

She hadn’t known what kind of battlefield her brother was going through.

Back then, just treating her own body was so difficult and painful.

But.

Now that she knew even a part of it.

She felt so sorry and sad.

Why had her brother walked through such hellish scenes by himself?

She knew the reason.

Revenge.

From a time she couldn’t remember.

Their parents’ tragic death.

That it was revenge for that.

“Elder Brother. Shouldn’t we stop now?”

Ha Seol-ran said this without realizing it herself.

The emotions welling up in her chest spilled out of her mouth just like that.

Ha Mu-baek quietly stroked his younger sibling’s head.

The things happening now were not what Ha Mu-baek wanted to do.

Past evil connections had carried down,

And now events were unfolding regardless of Ha Mu-baek’s will.

Of course, the beginning of those evil connections was the Blood Cult and Demon Cult.

If it weren’t for them.

Right now Ha Mu-baek would be living ordinarily in a small mountain village, farming and hunting.

On the other hand.

Thinking differently.

His younger sibling Ha Seol-ran in his arms.

She.

Perhaps.

Might not have been able to cure her severed meridians…

No.

That’s unknowable.

Human connections are unpredictable.

There’s no need to deliberately recall past events that never happened.

Just live reality.

“I’m, I’m sorry.”

Ha Seol-ran soon composed herself and emerged from his embrace.

“I’m the one who’s sorry. I only cause you worry.”

At Ha Mu-baek’s calm words.

Ha Seol-ran hung her head low.

Because she didn’t want to see Elder Brother like this.

“Is it all over now?”

Han Seol-bing interjected.

She was looking at a single blade fallen on the ground.

A uniquely shaped deformed blade.

The one who used this in the Blood Cult was Sam-no Blood Monster Blade among the Blood Cult Ten Elders.

It was a blade Han Seol-bing could never forget.

Because it was the blade that had created the deepest scar among the various scars on her back.

She looked at the four places where flames were now slowly dying down.

The Blood Cult Ten Elders deaths confirmed by the Jeongcheon Alliance in the last war were five.

That meant five were still alive.

Since Sam-no’s deformed blade was here, those must be four of the survivors.

And since Ha Mu-baek had said he dealt with Tenth Elder Do Mun-wi before.

All the Blood Cult Ten Elders were dead.

“There’s still one left. That place.”

Ha Mu-baek pointed to one location.

A passage leading underground was gaping wide open.

Han Seol-bing’s gaze turned there.

“Is that place the last?”

“Well. They’re such cockroach-like bastards… who knows where else they might be hiding. However. At least in Sanwol Demon Forest, it’s the last.”

At those words.

The gazes of everyone gathered here all turned to that place.

Then they looked at Ha Mu-baek.

“Then hurry up and go in to finish it.”

At Han Seol-bing’s words.

Ha Mu-baek chuckled.

“Let me circulate internal energy first.”

This situation of continuing fights where he truly poured out internal energy to the limit.

He couldn’t remember how long it had been.

Something he experienced only during the peak of war.

Since he had made it through even that hellish battlefield.

Ha Mu-baek calmly sat cross-legged and began circulating energy.

The people gathered here surrounded Ha Mu-baek like that.

Though this was now a place without any threats.

Like standing guardian.

They tried to protect him.

During these three days.

With respect for what he had accomplished.

 

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Rumble.

The ground shook.

In the darkness.

Gae Se-ak, who had been deeply immersed, tilted his head.

Because this was the first such reaction since entering this place.

‘What is it?’

His concentration was briefly broken.

The surrounding earth enveloped Gae Se-ak.

And.

Crash crash crash bang!

A loud sound echoed.

Thud thud thud thud.

The sound of something collapsing was heard.

Though his eyes were closed.

He could tell.

The passage he had entered through.

And had been sinking deeper and deeper into had collapsed.

Why on earth.

Had such a thing suddenly happened?

Such questions arose but soon irritation welled up.

Because the pleasant concentration he’d had while gaining power by becoming one with the darkness here was broken.

He entered concentration again.

Because he thought the affairs outside had nothing whatsoever to do with him.

He just wanted more power from this place.

Stronger power.

He sank deeply into the darkness again.

And Gae Se-ak didn’t break his concentration again.

That’s why he didn’t know.

That the earth surrounding him, which had remained still for quite a while after that.

From some point on.

Slowly went down, down below.

Slowly going down, down below.

Sinking deep underground.

The surrounding Qi Energy gathered and then gradually became faintly thin.

As if trying to flee and hide from something.

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