The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 97

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Chapter 97. Huh… Hehehe

 

 

At Ha Mu-baek’s words, Gongsun Mu-oe focused his internal energy on his eye power.

He was already concentrating sufficiently, but this was to see even a little more.

In fact, he didn’t even understand the meaning of placing acupuncture needles at the pressure points right now.

Some spots were clearly places to supplement blood meridians, but some spots had no meaning at all and were even dangerous spots.

After finishing the acupuncture, Ha Mu-baek grasped Gung So-yu’s pulse point.

And he carefully pushed in his internal energy.

The path the internal energy moved followed the route of Ha Mu-baek’s Four Gates’ unique mind technique, the Mugeuk Yeoui Heart Method.

As it did so, the needles placed at the pressure points and Ha Mu-baek’s internal energy caused an interaction.

Only then did the spots where Ha Mu-baek had placed the needles finally begin to have meaning.

However, there was no way for Gongsun Mu-oe to know this.

There was no method to discern the flow of internal energy.

However, he was aware that changes had occurred in the needles after Ha Mu-baek flowed in his internal energy.

The same was true for Gongsun Hwa-gyeong and Gongsun Bi-yeon.

The three blood relatives of Seonyu Valley concentrated all their minds to examine Gung So-yu’s condition.

“Mmm…”

A faint moan flowed from the lips of the sleeping Gung So-yu.

Her blood meridians were being stimulated and she was feeling pain.

Through the interaction of the needles and internal energy, qi energy was evenly seeping into the nine blocked and weakened blood meridian spots.

The thinned and weakened blood meridians gradually recovered.

Just a little bit.

But it was certainly better than before.

Had about an hour passed like that?

Ha Mu-baek removed his hand from Gung So-yu’s pulse point.

“Whew. We’ll stop here for today.”

At those words, Wi Ji-gun also nodded.

“That would be good. You’ve pushed yourself sufficiently hard today as well.”

After Ha Mu-baek gathered all the needles and stepped back, Gongsun Mu-oe grasped Gung So-yu’s pulse.

And then he immediately widened his eyes.

With just one pulse reading, he had noticed the changes that had occurred in Gung So-yu’s blood meridians.

“H-how could such a thing…”

His voice trembled.

“Her blood meridians were too weakened. So today I only supplemented the blood meridians very slightly. I only proceeded to the point of adjusting all the uneven blood meridians to a uniform state. Going beyond this, the blood meridians wouldn’t be able to withstand the qi energy.”

Ha Mu-baek added a brief explanation.

Gongsun Mu-oe still blinked his eyes with an expression of disbelief.

He looked as if he had become an idiot.

When Gongsun Mu-oe released Gung So-yu’s pulse and stepped back, Gongsun Hwa-gyeong grasped her daughter’s pulse.

Her reaction was the same as her father’s.

“Huh… Hehehe.”

Gongsun Mu-oe was just letting out a hollow laugh.

“I can’t believe it. To think this could be accomplished so simply…”

Gongsun Hwa-gyeong muttered blankly.

How much worry and how many attempts had there been to uniformly adjust and supplement the condition of her daughter’s nine blood meridian spots?

All of it had failed.

But the man before their eyes had solved it in one go.

“We were lucky. It’s thanks to the special ability of our sect’s mind technique working together with acupuncture.”

Ha Mu-baek said calmly.

They couldn’t probe further. Since he said it was his sect’s mind technique, how could they ask more?

“As Mu-baek said, we were truly lucky. Thanks to that, I was able to treat my disciple.”

Wi Ji-gun said with a bright smile.

“Fortunately, the Nine-Tone Severed Meridians shows reactions not much different from the Seven-Tone Severed Meridians, so even if it takes time, we should be able to treat it. Receiving treatment like this once every two days should be sufficient.”

“Thank you so much.”

At Wi Ji-gun’s words, Gongsun Mu-oe expressed his gratitude.

“Though I don’t need to tell you since you know well, eating well is also important treatment. Please don’t use medicine for the time being and just take good care of her meals.”

“I’ll keep that in mind.”

Gongsun Mu-oe answered Wi Ji-gun’s advice.

“Then we’ll take our leave.”

Ha Mu-baek and Wi Ji-gun departed.

The three generations of the Gongsun family left in that place looked at Gung So-yu with blank faces.

She was sleeping with a more comfortable face than ever before.

“Do you understand it?”

At Gongsun Mu-oe’s question, Gongsun Hwa-gyeong shook her head.

“He performed acupuncture at spots beyond conventional theory. I couldn’t understand it.”

At Gongsun Hwa-gyeong’s answer, Gongsun Mu-oe nodded.

“Still, we should research it.”

Gongsun Bi-yeon took out paper and ink, drew a diagram of the human body, and marked the spots where the needles had been placed.

There had been countless needles, but she remembered all those spots and their sequence.

The same was true for Gongsun Mu-oe and Gongsun Hwa-gyeong.

The three people compared their respective memories and reviewed the exact spots.

And they fell into deep contemplation.

To understand the meaning of the sequence and spots.

How much time had passed?

“Mmm…”

Gung So-yu tossed and turned before waking from sleep.

Two hours had passed.

“Did the treatment end well?”

Gung So-yu looked at her mother and asked carefully.

“You would know better.”

At Gongsun Hwa-gyeong’s words, Gung So-yu nodded slightly.

“My body does feel lighter than usual.”

“It seems like you’ll be completely cured.”

At Gongsun Mu-oe’s words, tears streamed down from Gung So-yu’s eyes.

She had cried earlier when told treatment was possible, but tears flowed again.

It was the first time her grandfather had spoken like that.

The hope that she could now live created tears in her eyes.

“Wasn’t it painful during the treatment?”

Gongsun Hwa-gyeong asked carefully.

“I was sleeping so deeply that I don’t remember anything at all.”

At Gung So-yu’s answer, Gongsun Hwa-gyeong nodded slightly and then hugged her.

“Thank goodness. Really, thank goodness.”

 

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“The young lady has headed toward Muchang.”

At his subordinate’s report, Gung Do-hyeok frowned.

A change of some kind was not particularly good news.

“They left Seonyu Valley? Why?”

It was an irritated question.

He had been filled with hope at the report that even Seonyu Valley seemed unable to treat his niece.

Gung So-yu was the only daughter of Gung Mu-hyeok, the Manmulryeon Lord.

She was the sole heir.

If she died from Nine-Tone Severed Meridians, the Manmulryeon Lord’s successor would disappear.

Then the next in line would be himself.

That’s why Gung Do-hyeok was paying attention to Gung So-yu’s every move.

His older brother Gung Mu-hyeok was the greatest genius in Manmulryeon’s history.

Thanks to him, Manmulryeon was currently enjoying unprecedented prosperity.

However, Gung Mu-hyeok had a weak body.

Though he possessed natural talent, his weak body became shackles preventing him from fully displaying that talent.

It was only this good because his wife’s family at Seonyu Valley was doing everything they could to care for his body.

Otherwise, his health would have been much worse.

Due to his frail body, having a younger sibling for Gung So-yu became a distant prospect.

How difficult it had been to have even her.

The lord had a weak body, and his heir had Nine-Tone Severed Meridians.

This situation made Gung Do-hyeok harbor ambitions.

There were also those who appropriately fanned those ambitions.

“It seems there might be a way to treat Nine-Tone Severed Meridians in Muchang.”

At his subordinate’s answer, Gung Do-hyeok’s face contorted with rage.

What kind of nonsense was that?

When even Seonyu Valley, said to possess the Central Plains’ finest medical arts, found it impossible.

“Do you think that makes sense?”

Gung Do-hyeok asked his subordinate in a chilling voice.

“The thing is… Gongsun Mu-oe went to Muchang first, then summoned the young lady there.”

At the returned answer, Gung Do-hyeok furrowed his brow.

He thought Gongsun Mu-oe, the lord of Seonyu Valley, wouldn’t engage in foolish affairs.

Tap. Tap tap tap.

He drummed his fingers on the writing desk.

It was a habit he showed when falling into deep thought.

“Look into it more thoroughly.”

At Gung Do-hyeok’s instruction, his subordinate bowed his head and left his office.

“How troublesome. I thought it would just be a matter of waiting…”

It was an irritated voice.

Gung Do-hyeok’s gaze turned to the scroll hanging on the wall.

It was a scroll with complex symbols and formulas intertwined.

Something that seemed to depict part of something.

That was all he could obtain.

“Ten Thousand Heaven Gold Chain Explosive Thunder…”

Gung Do-hyeok muttered.

The scroll hanging on the wall was part of the Ten Thousand Heaven Gold Chain Explosive Thunder blueprint.

The limit of what Gung Do-hyeok could obtain.

Ten Thousand Heaven Gold Chain Explosive Thunder was a personal hidden weapon.

More precisely, it was a hidden weapon using explosives, and its power was tremendous despite being called personal.

If it had been completed during the last war, it would have changed the tide of battle.

But it was only completed two years ago.

After the war had ended.

It was made by improving the hidden weapon called Ten Thousand Heaven Blood Thunder that originally belonged to Manmulryeon.

Though called an improvement, it was almost like creating something entirely new.

The one who accomplished this tremendous feat was none other than Gung Mu-hyeok.

He wasn’t called a genius for nothing.

Even after creating it, Gung Mu-hyeok immediately sealed the Ten Thousand Heaven Gold Chain Explosive Thunder due to its tremendous power.

Only one prototype existed.

Gung Mu-hyeok always carried it with him, and the blueprint was divided into five pieces.

The complete blueprint existed only in Gung Mu-hyeok’s head, while the recorded version was torn into five pieces, and no one knew who had them.

Gung Do-hyeok was one of those five people.

How did they know that Gung Do-hyeok possessed that blueprint?

They had approached him subtly.

And they never breathed a word about the blueprint.

They merely planted the small seed of ambition that perhaps he might become the next Manmulryeon Lord.

As Gung Mu-hyeok’s health gradually worsened and Gung So-yu’s Nine-Tone Severed Meridians progressively advanced.

Those people visited Gung Do-hyeok more frequently and fanned the flames of ambition.

And it had reached this point.

Their plan had succeeded, and Gung Do-hyeok now naturally believed he should become the Manmulryeon Lord.

At this point, they revealed their greed.

Yesterday was the first time they mentioned the Ten Thousand Heaven Gold Chain Explosive Thunder.

However, even they hadn’t realized that scroll was a blueprint.

It was natural.

It was a blueprint made so it couldn’t be read without knowing the decryption method for the code Gung Mu-hyeok created.

It only looked like a scroll of incomprehensible symbols and diagrams.

When Gung Do-hyeok received the blueprint from Gung Mu-hyeok, he learned the decryption method for the code.

“Even if I become the lord, would I be able to know the whereabouts of the other four pieces?”

Gung Do-hyeok muttered quietly.

And if it were his older brother, he would have hidden all five blueprints with different codes.

He wouldn’t be able to easily obtain the blueprints as those people intended.

Nevertheless, Gung Do-hyeok had been feeling intense temptation lately.

The voice of desire in his heart telling him to join hands with them.

He was already perfectly caught in their conspiracy.

 

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“How is the lord’s health?”

Deep in the night.

After Gung So-yu had fallen asleep, Gongsun Mu-oe asked his daughter.

Gongsun Hwa-gyeong’s face darkened.

“He keeps getting weaker. I can’t figure out the cause… Though he was born with a naturally weak constitution, it’s gotten worse recently.”

Both her daughter and husband’s health were poor.

“He won’t come to the valley?”

At Gongsun Mu-oe’s question, Gongsun Hwa-gyeong nodded.

“He just asks us to take good care of So Yu.”

“Hmm.”

Gongsun Mu-oe let out a groan full of worry.

“Even if So Yu is completely cured, if Gung Seo-bang is in that state…”

The title of lord had changed to Gung Seo-bang.

After all, wasn’t he his son-in-law?

“I’m worried.”

Gongsun Hwa-gyeong said with a dark expression.

“Huu. How laughable that Seonyu Valley is said to possess the greatest medical arts in the Central Plains. They can’t even properly treat their son-in-law and granddaughter.”

Gongsun Mu-oe muttered as if frustrated.

“By any chance, Great Person, might you have some method?”

Gongsun Hwa-gyeong asked with a small hope.

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