Doctor’s Rebirth - Chapter 128

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Chapter 128
Crack!
In that instant, Cheonryeong struck lightning across the sky.
At that sound, the Black-Clothed Person and Monstrous Person’s attention snapped toward it.
Then!
“Ugh…aaaaahhh…!”
Hwang-gu’s snout attacked the man’s vital point.
The Black-Clothed Person couldn’t even scream properly as his body slowly crumpled forward.
As the unbearable pain drained the strength from his grip, the young Cheonryeong escaped.
Whoosh—
The Monstrous Person gasped in shock.
“What in the…!”
At the same moment, my Icy Frost Blade slashed across the Monstrous Person’s neck.
Clang!
Unlike the Black-Clothed Person, the Monstrous Person was considerably strong, blocking my Icy Frost Blade with a bare fist.
“Who are you!”
“Does it matter if you know?”
In that moment, powerful lightning flowed along the blade and surged into me.
‘Thunder technique?’
Bzzzzt!
The current electrocuted me, temporarily stiffening my body.
The moment he tried to deliver a second follow-up strike, Cheonryeong shot lightning at him.
Crack—!
He immediately created distance.
It was fortunate.
I immediately circulated the Five Elements Divine Art to disperse the lightning energy.
‘Did they send someone who learned thunder technique to capture Cheonryeong?’
As I loosened my arm and swung my blade, he clicked his tongue.
“Kekeke, dispersing lightning shot from this distance? You’re no ordinary opponent.”
I replied.
“Who are you!”
In truth, I already knew who these men were.
But if I said, ‘I know you’re from Hyeolseonggyo, and I came to interfere with you!’ then they’d think, ‘What! You know our identity? Is there a spy among us? We must inform the sect immediately!’ and flee to bring back elite forces to kill me—a disaster I wanted to avoid.
‘I’m still too young, too delicate, too fragile to face the real elites of Hyeolseonggyo. Sigh, what a worry.’
I thought these words casually—words that would have made Yoo Ho retch in disbelief.
‘Anyway, no islanders know that Seo Baek-ryong came to this island. Let’s just pretend a spirit creature came because it coveted something.’
Half true. Half a lie.
I thought to myself.
A good adult must also be skilled at deception.
“Tsk tsk tsk. Since I found that Cheonryeong first, you should give up. Kid.”
Jin Cheon-hee answered to that.
“Bota Temple granted me permission to meet Cheonryeong. This is unauthorized poaching!”
Even the righteous martial artists of Gangho had their eyes bloodshot searching for Cheonryeong, so such words would never work on a villain.
However, Jin Cheon-hee deliberately feigned ignorance, playing the role of a naive young master unfamiliar with Gangho’s ways.
“Keke. I don’t know what nonsense you’re spouting, but it doesn’t matter anyway. Now that you’ve seen me, you’ll have to abandon all attachments to this life. Besides, with such a decent-looking face, the Yoseon would surely appreciate your skull.”
Murder and annihilation.
‘So he never intended to let me live in the first place.’
I’d suspected as much.
I had already calculated how to dispatch the Monstrous Person before me using the Hyeonwon Jeondan Singeong.
‘Hmm… lightning power.’
I too had handled lightning while learning the Ten-Step Divine Spear.
‘This one wields lightning energy purely through demonic arts.’
But I use a method that combines lightning energy through the Five Elements Divine Art.
“If you won’t come, I’ll come to you myself.”
In that instant, my form left afterimages as I vanished.
At the same time, Cheonryeong also launched an attack at the Monstrous Person.
Crackle!
A blue bolt of lightning shot from Cheonryeong toward the Monstrous Person.
“Futile effort…”
The creature paid no mind to Cheonryeong’s attack and fired lightning toward me instead.
A lightning bolt several times more magnificent than what Cheonryeong had unleashed came flying at me like a palm strike.
‘I expected as much.’
Taking that lightning directly would kill even me.
My opponent was stronger than me.
Judging by the aura it emanated, it seemed even stronger than Gokgol Hyeolma.
I condensed the Metal element of the Five Elements Divine Art into my Icy Frost Sword.
Zing—
Then I read the path of the incoming lightning and threw my sword with perfect timing.
Crackle!
Remarkably, the lightning struck not me, but my Icy Frost Sword. And that sword conducted the electricity harmlessly into the ground.
“You might call it a lightning rod.”
When there’s a pointed metal object in a high place, lightning strikes it instead. Then that lightning is sent into the ground to be dissipated.
This way, fires caused by lightning can be prevented.
A simple principle discovered by Benjamin Franklin.
“No! How did you possibly…?!”
The Monstrous Person before me was flustered.
Since only Jin Cheon-hee wielded the Five Elements Divine Art in such a manner, his confusion was understandable.
In that moment, my afterimage scattered, and I appeared before the creature’s eyes.
My fist launched an Inner Heavy Water Technique toward the Monstrous Person’s solar plexus.
The creature immediately wrapped lightning around its body.
His shock was brief—a smile played at the corner of his mouth.
If I threw my fist forward as planned, my entire body would naturally be convulsed by the Lightning Blood Demon Art.
My fist drove straight into the Monstrous Person’s solar plexus.
BOOM—!
Remarkably, I felt no electrical shock whatsoever as I poured all my strength into the blow.
“Kugh!”
The Monstrous Person spat blood and was hurled backward.
A single strike.
Just a simple blow containing merely the subtleties of the Three Disasters Fist Technique had shattered his internal organs.
“No! What have you done?!”
“Why does it matter?”
“What…?!”
In that moment, the Monstrous Person’s eyes widened.
My fist had been wrapped in earth qi.
I had surrounded my hand with the earth’s essence, transforming it into an insulator before driving my fist into his solar plexus.
“The Five Elements Divine Art. The Five Elements Divine Art! Yes. That enormous dog and those inhuman features. You must be Baek Rin-ui-seon’s prized disciple. Seo Baek-ryong?”
In that instant.
A sickening, tearing sound echoed out.
It was the sound of Hwang-gu completely ripping away some part of the Black-Clothed Person’s anatomy.
Astonishingly, his testicles had been torn off, yet the Black-Clothed Person did not die.
He merely fainted, foaming at the mouth.
I spoke in shock.
“So it truly is demonic cultivation. How can he sur—ah.”
Despite suffering pain that should have killed him through shock, the Black-Clothed Person remained alive, merely unconscious.
Watching this, I thought to myself.
‘Torture won’t be very effective on these creatures, will it?’
With this level of pain tolerance, that was only natural.
Woof! – Master, I protect!
The Monstrous Person before me grew pale at the sight and spoke.
“Kuk… You dare… interfere with our sect’s affairs.”
“Your sect? What is that?”
I continued to play ignorant, maintaining my composure.
After exchanging blows to this extent, I had a good grasp of what manner of person this was.
The Bearded Middle-Aged Man.
Hyeolseonggyo was a sect descended from the Daoist tradition.
Since Daoism was fundamentally a place where people cultivated to become immortals, those with deep cultivation were called Zhenren—those who had awakened to Daoist truth—or Shangren, meaning those whose studies ran deep and had ascended to great heights.
This was why even the Mudang Sect and Huashan Sect referred to their masters using titles like “Yueling Zhenren.”
This man before me was one of the mid-level bosses of Hyeolseonggyo. He had mastered a martial art called the Lightning Spirit Divine Art, wielding a force called Lightning Spirit True Qi.
His inner force possessed electrical properties, with power that could be described as lightning crackling from his hands.
‘Or should I call him the Black Lightning Blood Demon?’
As I’ve mentioned before, among the villains of Gangho—particularly mid-tier bosses—there are quite a few who bear the title of Hyeolma.
I’ve never understood why villains find the epithet “Hyeolma” so appealing, but regardless, it appears far too frequently.
There are several variants of Hyeolma.
Gokgol Hyeolma, Extreme Poison Hyeolma, Frozen Calamity Hyeolma… and so forth.
And the name “Bearded Middle-Aged Man” was used within Hyeolseonggyo.
In Gangho, this Monstrous Person was simply called the Black Lightning Blood Demon.
Because his Lightning Lord Divine Art combined with Hyeolseonggyo’s demonic techniques, causing his lightning to take on a black hue.
He himself preferred the epithet “Black Lightning Blood Demon” to the title “Bearded Middle-Aged Man.”
There was something about the “Hyeolma” epithet that made a villain’s blood sing.
‘I hope the Gokgol Hyeolma I faced wasn’t the weakest among them.’
The Black Lightning Blood Demon’s inner power was also one and a half heavenly grades.
Similar to Gokgol Hyeolma, but perhaps an elemental variant—this is what I pondered.
“You blocked my lightning with the earth element true qi of the Five Elements Divine Art? Then I shall strike you down directly!”
Crackle, crackle, crackle! Pop, pop, pop!
Black-tinged lightning overflowed from the Black Lightning Blood Demon’s body.
As a supreme master himself, he controlled that lightning perfectly.
As the lightning writhed across his entire frame, it resembled watching a living Tesla coil.
‘So this is actually possible? The novel’s description was completely accurate.’
Witnessing this, I tensed considerably.
True to his role as a mid-tier boss, the Black Lightning Blood Demon fought fiercely against Yeo Ha-ryun.
The novel contained detailed descriptions of his combat style, so I already knew how he fought.
‘He uses lightning to instantaneously accelerate his physical speed. He can also enhance his overall physical performance and paralyze opponents with the lightning itself. Since he has both offense and defense, he’s truly troublesome.’
A difficult opponent.
Simultaneously, using the Hyeonwon Jeondan Singeong, I calculated how I could face the Black Lightning Blood Demon using the scientific knowledge I possessed, the Taeul Danseonggeom, and the Five Elements Divine Art.
‘I can block the paralysis effect with earth element true qi and defend against the lightning attacks themselves, so my opponent will rely on instantaneous acceleration and physical enhancement to charge in. In that case, a battle of strength, technique, and speed would be ideal!’
What remained was the quantity of inner power I possessed.
‘I don’t need to protect my entire body with earth element true qi. I’ll predict my opponent’s attack trajectory and distribute the earth element true qi only to the necessary areas. That would be far more efficient.’
The same method as wrapping earth element true qi around only my fist to attack moments ago.
This was a technique only someone like me, who had undergone Rebirth of Bone and Shedding of Flesh with all three meridians freely accessible, could perform.
Boom!
The moment I finished my internal deliberation, the Black Lightning Blood Demon charged forward.
‘Hyeonwon Jeondan Singeong—thought acceleration!’
The speed of my surroundings became extremely slow.
With the Hyeonwon Jeondan Singeong accelerating my thought speed, everything around me except myself felt as though time had slowed.
Yet the Black Lightning Blood Demon’s speed was still terrifyingly fast.
‘Insane! If I’d just charged in recklessly, I’d have spilled my brains in a single exchange?’
He was the fastest opponent I’d encountered so far.
But my thought speed far exceeded his physical speed.
I immediately drew my blade and deployed the sword form of the Taeul Danseonggeom.
Whoosh!
The Black Lightning Blood Demon’s hand struck at a cunning angle, his movements serpentine and fluid.
Even for a supreme master, such lightning-fast movements were nearly impossible to counter, but the Taeul Danseonggeom I had mastered was equally swift, and I responded by meeting his strike—my blade slicing across his hand.
Clang!
Despite hand and blade colliding, the sound of metal striking metal rang out as we were thrown apart.
Yet the Black Lightning Blood Demon showed no signs of slowing.
He immediately whipped both his hands left and right like whips, attacking from both directions simultaneously.
I tilted my blade diagonally to deflect both strikes, and in the same breath, I shifted into a thrusting stance and drove my sword forward.
A technique from the Taeul Danseonggeom—Yuun Gwancheon.
True to its name of “piercing the clouds,” my blade moved soft as a cloud, blocking the enemy’s attacks before striking—a technique that flowed seamlessly between defense and offense.
Unlike the ornate Twenty-Four Thunder Strikes, this was a gentle counter technique that turned the enemy’s own force against them.
Clang!
But the Black Lightning Blood Demon pushed off the ground and retreated, blocking my blade with both hands.
In less than a second, we had exchanged multiple attacks.

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