Devastating The Murim with My Little Sister

P.O.V - David.

As I get into the cave the children run towards me the fire lit behind them casting their shadows on me.

They notice my broken forearm and stop in their tracks shocked.

"What happened Master?" Conan asks, his face and voice full of concern.

'Master huh? Do I even still have the right to be their Sensei?'

"It's nothing serious I just tripped over myself while walking." I say to them with a smile.

"Nobody breaks an arm from just tripping over Master!" Hwa states.

"Well I'm quite weak now so..."

We stood there in awkward silence for a while.

"You don't look good Master." Byeol says.

Yhh, of course I don't, my skin is quite wrinkled, my muscles have gone thin and my hair is now white.

I look like I could drop at any point.

Even standing right now is hard.

The children come around me and guide me to where I could sit.

Ae Cha who came from a family of nurses helped me align the bones and wrap it up with clothing materials.

"This is the best I can do for now Master." She says as she finishes wrapping me up.

Without any kind of anesthesia the whole process was quite painful but I pushed through.

"Thank you." I say to her.

"What can we do Master? What can we do to help you?" Hwa asks, her voice filled with worry.

I give a soft smile.

"Please Master, I hate seeing you like this." Nari says.

"We! hate seeing you like this." Hoon states.

My smile widens as I look at all of them worrying about me.

What the hell was I saying about not caring for them... Hahaha, how could I possibly ignore these cute little babies.

"Do not worry about it, there's not much that can be done, I can only hope to heal naturally." I say to them with a smile trying to ease them.

"Ummm, Master, may I?" Conan raises his hand.

"Yes?"

"Ummm, how about that Martial Arts of yours that heals your body? Can't you use that?" Conan asks.

Yh I would have used that but I do not have a Dantian to channel inner energy.

I heave a sigh.

"I guess I should tell you all..."

I heave another sigh, this time longer than the last.

"Well you see, right now, I do not have a dantian."

Shock fills their faces as I say this.

"Whaa... What???"

"After I woke up I realized my Dantian had been completely destroyed, probably due to the extreme simultaneous filling and emptying of it.

You do not need to feel bad, I was aware of the consequence before we did that.

And do not worry I already have a plan to heal myself." I explain to them.

Conan heaves a sigh.

"You are lying Master, you do not have any plan in mind." He says.

Huh? how did this kid know?

"But I have an idea, when you passed out we healed you by infusing Ki into you, and I was quite confident it would work because your hair was still stained red meaning that particular Martial Art was still on.

What if we channel Ki for you to be able to activate it and then heal yourself over time." He suggests.

Hmm, thats good thinking but it wouldn't work.

If using external energy was that easy people wouldn't really bother about having a Dantian as much as they do.

To kickstart a technique the energy needs to be drawn from within, from the dantian.

What Conan and the children did to save me probably worked because the Technique was still activated even if just a little.

"I see, so that's how you saved me, that was good thinking since you were quite aware of the Martial Arts but it wouldn't necessarily work in this case.

To activate a Martial Arts, the energy required needs to be be from within, so except I can somehow manage to start up the Technique, your idea wouldn't really work, nice thinking though, you get two points for that."

"I see..." Conan replies as he seems to ponder on something.

"But Master, aren't you the one that told us that in this world nothing is impossible? So why are we not trying this, this is most likely our only option so why should we give up on it when we haven't even tried?" Nari questions.

Woah are these children now lecturing me?

I giggle a bit.

Well she is right, but I know it wouldn't work, it...

Wait!!! why shouldn't it work? haven't I always performed miracles? things that other Martial Artists stated to be impossible, haven't I gone beyond those?

I heave a sigh.

Damn, what happened to me, I used to be so challenging, now I sit here giving up on an option before even trying it.

Am I getting old? hahaha.

"Thank you Nari, you just woke me up, thank you all, no matter the result of this, I will not give up, I will ensure to raise you all to become the finest Martial Artists this lands have ever seen and of course I will stand before you to guide you through."

They begin to smile as it seems my vigour gradually returns.

"Before then you all need to learn how to efficiently channel and control your Ki.

Your inexperience led to you all suffering from Ki exhaustion last time.

So until you all can properly control your Ki we are not going ahead with Conan's idea."

"B...but, won't you be in pain throughout?" Beom states.

"Well of course, so if you hate seeing me in pain that much hurry up and learn to properly control your Ki." I say to them with a smile.

"Last person to be able to control his/her Ki properly does the laundry for a week." I state.

"Huh? the laundry?"

Not wanting to be the one to do the laundry they all immediately get fired up and got to training.

It was nice seeing them all enthusiastic.

Now, let's see how long it would take them to be able to properly control their Ki.