The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 492

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Chapter 492. These Bastards Must Be Eliminated

 

 

“You? Surely you don’t mean the great cult?”

The messenger asked, his eyes glaring fiercely at Ha Mu-baek’s response.

To dare speak such mad words about destroying the cult – he was a bastard who wouldn’t be satisfying to kill even if torn apart immediately.

“Great cult?”

Ha Mu-baek chuckled.

It was clear mockery.

Recognizing this, the messenger’s expression twisted viciously.

“Seeing how you call it the Heavenly Demon Guanyin Statue, it seems you know what kind of organization you belong to.”

“That’s not something a bastard like you can speak of. Don’t carelessly utter that sacred name.”

The messenger’s entire body trembled.

“So you do know.”

Ha Mu-baek spoke calmly at that reaction.

“Shut up! To purify this dirty and turbid world, it must be destroyed once. We must start anew from clean nothingness and create a truly pure world!”

“So that’s why you joined the Demon Cult that killed countless innocent people?”

“You damn bastard! How dare you speak of the great cult in such a way.”

“Don’t you call yourselves the Demon Cult?”

“It is the World-Cleansing Guanyin Cult!”

It was a name meaning the Guanyin Cult that washes the world.

“Not the Heavenly Demon God Cult?”

Ha Mu-baek’s mockery deepened.

At the name Heavenly Demon God Cult, the messenger’s cheeks trembled violently.

“Die!!”

And immediately he struck toward Ha Mu-baek.

A hand strike filled with internal energy flew toward Ha Mu-baek.

Ha Mu-baek simply waved his hand.

Bang!

The messenger flew straight into the wall.

“You didn’t answer? What about the countless innocent people who will die when you create that pure world?”

Ha Mu-baek asked, still standing in the same spot.

“Hmph, the very act of breathing in this turbid and dirty world is already committing sin. Therefore, there are no innocent people! Cough.”

The messenger who shouted as if screaming coughed up blood.

He had suffered such serious internal injuries from just one attack by Ha Mu-baek.

“Then what about you bastards? You’re also breathing in that turbid and dirty world, aren’t you? Are you saying you’re not sinners?”

“We are truly martyrs born into this dirty world and sacrificing ourselves for a new world. We are bodies that can never die first before this world ends.”

The messenger straightened his body, glared at Ha Mu-baek with blazing eyes, then charged again.

Thud!

Thud thud!

Thud!

He was beaten countless times by Ha Mu-baek’s fists.

It was extremely painful but not enough to kill him.

Ha Mu-baek looked at the human called messenger with calm eyes.

Ha Mu-baek himself was greatly surprised by his own behavior.

Of course, he didn’t show it and remained expressionless.

If it had been his former self, he would have killed this bastard immediately due to boiling murderous intent, yet here he was keeping him alive and questioning him one by one!

‘There’s definitely been a change.’

Ha Mu-baek felt it himself.

What about the evil spirit within?

It was still crouched but had slightly raised its head to look at the messenger.

Its sharply gleaming eyes held anger and doubt rather than murderous intent.

“Ugh. This Devil Bastard… how dare you treat the great cult for a pure world…”

“It’s the Heavenly Demon, not Heavenly Demon Guanyin. To use the being called Guanyin in such a way. I knew you bastards were irredeemable trash, but you really are bastards who deserve to die. You’re even bewitching innocent civilians and deceiving the masses.”

Ha Mu-baek spoke in a cold voice.

“Kraaaah!”

The messenger’s eyes changed as he let out a shriek like a seizure.

Reason disappeared and only instinct remained.

“Heavenly Demon Guanyin descends! All things prostrate! Cleanse the world and save people!”

The Heavenly Demon Guanyin appears in the world, so all things in the world prostrate themselves, and the world is cleansed to save people.

These were words in Ha Mu-baek’s memory.

This was the meaning contained in the incantation-like words that bastard muttered quietly to himself.

The one who charged at Ha Mu-baek like that clung desperately.

As if he couldn’t feel pain even when beaten, he tried somehow to make contact with Ha Mu-baek.

Ha Mu-baek, who had deployed his Infinite Bright Wheel Eye, quietly watched him grab one of his arms.

The moment he grabbed Ha Mu-baek’s left arm.

The messenger’s internal energy reversed its flow.

Not a forward flow but a reverse flow.

This was a method favored by the Demon Cult’s demonic arts, but the path of that flow itself was unfamiliar.

It flowed in reverse from the flow of orthodox sect internal energy.

It was a flow the Demon Cult had never shown in the last war.

Thud.

Ha Mu-baek’s fist tapped the messenger’s dantian.

Due to the dantian being greatly shaken by the heavy impact, the flow of internal energy stopped momentarily.

Ha Mu-baek seized that moment to press the messenger’s pressure points and subdue him.

Though his eyes still showed lost reason, perhaps thanks to momentarily shaking his dantian?

He collapsed, subdued.

Thump.

Ha Mu-baek quietly looked down at the bastard sprawled on the ground.

“These bastards have become more secretive and vicious.”

Ha Mu-baek carried the messenger and quietly left that place.

Though he had caused a commotion with loud shouts and great sounds, none of the hired workers noticed.

This was thanks to Ha Mu-baek surrounding the area with an energy barrier.

Ha Mu-baek, who had instantly escaped to the Luoyang outskirts, hid the bastard in a secret place only he knew.

It was a small dark cave in the mountain foothills he used to visit for training when he was in Luoyang.

Since the formation Han Seol-bing had set up was still operating, no one would find this place.

Ha Mu-baek headed back to Luoyang.

He went straight to Sohaeng Inn.

After having lunch at the inn, he secretly roamed various parts of Luoyang again.

This was to find the people he had seen at the estate.

Even though they were people who hadn’t learned internal energy, since he remembered their presence, observing them wasn’t difficult.

They were all ordinary people.

People earnestly engaged in their respective livelihoods.

Just as he was wondering why such people had fallen into a Demon Cult that spouted such ridiculous nonsense.

Ha Mu-baek was looking at a construction site a little away from the southern streets of Luoyang.

He was observing the laborers who used to frequent Sohaeng Inn.

They too were among those who had been fervently bowing toward the Heavenly Demon Guanyin at dawn today.

Just then.

“Hey! Mr. Jang! How many times have I told you! That’s not how you do it there! The thing on your shoulders isn’t there just for balance! If you have a head attached, use it to think while you work!”

A young man shouting at the top of his lungs at that laborer.

He looked much younger than the laborer, yet was hurling all sorts of curses at the laborer called Mr. Jang.

Mr. Jang was a common laborer, while the young man seemed to be a craftsman.

Mr. Jang kept bowing his head in apology, but the young man’s verbal abuse didn’t stop.

Smack.

“You bastard. What makes you think you’re doing so well that you can act like this.”

A craftsman who was past middle age and heading toward old age struck the young man’s head and spoke.

“Ah, Master Builder sir. Even so, that was…”

“This bastard. Where do you get off talking back!”

When the Master Builder raised his hand again, the young man flinched.

“You go finish up over there!”

At the Master Builder’s gesture, the young man hurried away.

The Master Builder then looked at Mr. Jang.

“Friend Jang. That’s why I keep telling you not to just do laborer work and learn carpentry under me.”

“Thank you, Master Builder sir.”

Mr. Jang bowed his waist.

But he remained silent about learning carpentry work.

And for good reason, as learning carpentry would reduce his daily wages.

Still, since he’d receive much higher wages in the future, the immediate reduction wasn’t really a problem.

In fact, other people couldn’t even learn because they had no Master Builder or carpenter willing to teach them.

Mr. Jang was essentially refusing a tremendous stroke of luck.

“Sigh. Tell me whenever you change your mind. I’d always welcome a diligent fellow like you.”

The Master Builder patted his shoulder and left.

“Thank you so much.”

Mr. Jang muttered quietly.

He too wanted to chase after the Master Builder right now and learn carpentry, but he couldn’t.

Mr. Jang needed his current laborer’s daily wage too desperately.

With reduced wages, he couldn’t survive day to day, so even when meeting a good opportunity, he couldn’t grasp it.

Mr. Jang glanced to one side.

There, the young man who had just berated Mr. Jang was diligently hammering away.

Mr. Jang’s eyes turned cold.

“Heavenly Demon Guanyin’s descent, all things blessed, cleanse and save the people. Heavenly Demon Guanyin’s descent, all things blessed, cleanse and save the people…”

In a very small voice, so quietly that even someone right next to him couldn’t understand, he mumbled.

Only Ha Mu-baek could hear those words clearly.

He was already carefully observing the laborers and craftsmen.

Among the laborers who visited Sohaeng Inn early in the morning, the person called Mr. Jang was the one who always sat in a corner, ate a bowl of noodles, and left.

Ha Mu-baek frowned after seeing all of this.

“Tsk. Right. Just because war has disappeared doesn’t mean it’s a world where everyone lives well…”

No, rather there would be countless people who found this world lamentable and resentful.

He didn’t need to look far.

Even Dan Mok Un-rae had applied to the Maengryong Corps, called meat shields, because he needed money as daily survival was difficult.

Among those living such difficult lives, how many would be thinking they wished this damn world would just disappear entirely?

The Demon Cult was now infiltrating the gaps in such desperate people’s hearts.

‘Deceiving and confusing the people.’

These were words he had said to the Demon Cult messenger, but they truly fit the current behavior of those Demon Cult bastards perfectly.

Ha Mu-baek looked around at the other laborers and craftsmen.

Seeing them after observing Mr. Jang, he felt like he could see it now.

Though their circumstances would all be different, these were faces bearing the weight of their respective lives.

When they couldn’t bear the weight of those lives and lamented that this damn world should just disappear.

Cleanse and save the people.

They had fallen for those words about seeking someone to cleanse the world.

To them, it would make no difference whether this world existed or not.

Even so.

‘Weak.’

Ha Mu-baek suddenly had that thought.

Dan Mok Un-rae.

That boy didn’t resent the world despite being in such difficult circumstances.

Rather, he had tried to overcome it somehow with his own strength.

‘No, is that kid strong?’

After discovering the shadows hidden in so many faces, Dan Mok Un-rae seemed remarkably impressive.

Then the evil spirit within Ha Mu-baek raised its head once more and tilted it curiously.

At that sight, Ha Mu-baek also tilted his head.

He didn’t understand his inner evil spirit’s reaction.

Ha Mu-baek had forgotten.

That he too had lived a difficult enough life that it wouldn’t be strange for him to wish this damn world would disappear.

Ha Mu-baek’s resentment wasn’t directed at the world.

It was directed at the Demon Cult and Blood Cult that had destroyed his peaceful village.

The evil spirit within Ha Mu-baek was born from that resentment and hatred.

That’s why it tilted its head at Ha Mu-baek’s thoughts.

Though they were emotions of hatred, revenge, and resentment, rather than resenting the world, it was the heart and resolve to overcome and accomplish things himself.

That was the evil spirit’s origin, so when he praised another’s heart to overcome as strong, the evil spirit tilted its head.

The one who was truly strong was Ha Mu-baek himself, who had given birth to it.

Ha Mu-baek traveled throughout Luoyang like this.

He found all the many people he had seen at dawn.

They all had dark shadows hidden deep in their faces without exception.

Their wish was rather that this world would perish and everyone would disappear.

This was a problem even Ha Mu-baek couldn’t do anything about.

They all had their own stories, and they had their own sense of justice.

However, that wasn’t a legitimate reason to destroy the world.

Even if they wished for the world to perish.

In the end, Ha Mu-baek’s decision was one.

“Demon Cult. I have to eliminate these bastards.”

Those bastards who were trying to make the world chaotic by exploiting the stories of people with heartbreaking circumstances.

They were the source of evil.

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