Doctor’s Rebirth - Chapter 182

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Chapter 182
The moment twenty enemies came into view, I flicked a pebble with my foot and struck it with the Icebound Sword.
A single pebble split cleanly in two, carrying the metal essence of the Five Elements as it flew.
Tap-tap-tap!
Just two pebbles became projectiles, ricocheting through the trees.
Thunk.
As the two stones scattered the Masked Persons’ attention, my figure became visible.
Whoosh—
“Enemy!”
These ones possessed some intellect, speaking like actual humans.
Yet the pebbles that had become projectiles embedded themselves in a Masked Person’s eyes.
In that same instant, my blade tore across his shoulder.
“Kill that bastard!”
The enemy shrieked like a banshee.
Hwang-gu, intoxicated with blood and matching my breathing, charged toward the enemy.
As countless hidden weapons flew toward him, Hwang-gu bristled his fur completely.
[Diamond Fur]
The hide of an extremely trained spirit beast deflected the weapons and swallowed the enemy’s leg whole.
Crunch—
The sight of blood spraying as they screamed resembled a B-grade film.
I coordinated with Hwang-gu’s support, pouring the essence of Righteous Ascension into the Icebound Sword as I swung.
Taeul Danseonggeom.
Taeul Fission Light.
A blade strike containing the essence of the Five Elements, Yang’s Divine Technique, Hyeonwon Jeondan Singeong, and Taegeuk Hye Sword split into four rays in an instant, dismembering each enemy’s body.
The Masked Persons and Daoists screamed like madmen.
“Kill, kill, kill them all!”
The jiangshi lying in coffins simultaneously rose and began moving toward the enemy.
The bell sound created by the Daoists began ringing as if it would burst eardrums.
Illusory Dream Technique. Yet I drew the Black Pine Cloud Sword.
I vibrated the Icebound Sword to its absolute limit.
The moment that frequency exceeded human hearing range, the Black Pine Cloud Sword struck the Icebound Sword infused with thunder essence.
Kaang—
Following the principles of modern science, the sound attack shot in a straight line, bursting the Daoists’ eardrums and shaking their cochlea.
In the opening created.
Blue lightning fell from the sky like divine punishment.
Krrrack!
The lightning created by Noeji instantly electrocuted two Daoists.
The remaining Daoists stiffened momentarily, then quickly formed a wall of jiangshi.
“Hold the formation! Gae Jin!”
As the white-robed Daoist commanded, the jiangshi began forming a formation in unison.
‘Fast.’
I was not one to simply watch as the birth gate and death gate were completed in an instant.
I infused the Taegeuk Hye Sword and Lesser Azure Sword’s mysteries into the Black Pine Cloud Sword I held and hurled it.
My target was the Bearded Middle-Aged Man.
Sensing the killing intent, the Bearded Middle-Aged Man summoned a corpse puppet to block his front.
A span of mere 0.2 to 0.3 seconds.
Yet it was sufficient time to channel the Five Elements True Qi into the Black Pine Cloud Sword.
I made my bones the bowstring and my muscles the string.
I charged my inner force and circulated it through my arm until it seemed ready to burst.
My arm remained intact only because of my external martial arts trained to the extreme limit.
In an instant, my muscles swelled. Then I released it.
Kaang!
The Black Pine Cloud Sword embedded itself in the corpse puppet’s head. Though it did not completely pierce through the skull, the force caused the puppet’s head to jerk backward.
In that moment, I raised my index finger upward.
The Bearded Middle-Aged Man looked up in surprise.
There, the Hawk was gathering lightning qi.
The Metal Qi bound to the Black Pine Cloud Sword induced the electric current, driving it into a single point.
Kwaarrung!
The moment the Bearded Middle-Aged Man was neutralized, the corpse puppets lost their command.
The Bing Jing Sword seized that opening and cut them down.
Neither the birth gate nor the death gate mattered.
Twenty enemies and more than ten corpse puppets were annihilated entirely.
There were no deaths, but should the Bloodline Bridge suffer defeat, they would endure torture worse than death.
Those with remaining will in their jaws attempted self-termination.
I regarded such fools coldly for a moment, then strode directly toward the core of the formation.
Clink. – No enemies nearby. Safe.
Hwang-gu immediately sensed the surrounding scents to protect his master.
I drew out the Feng Shui disc and calculated the original formation pattern used at Mudang Mountain.
I determined what its true form was.
Aligning the cardinal directions and observing the positions of the stars, I read the heavens and earth.
As the Hyeonwon Jeondan Singeong moved, I sifted through over a thousand formation patterns passed down through the Jegal Family and synthesized them.
One corner of my mind still screamed with PTSD from war, but I confirmed my brain’s performance remained unimpaired.
In a way, it resembled an emergency room on a holiday.
Whether the doctor collapses or not, patients arrive endlessly.
If I collapse, none can be saved. If I endure, even one life might be preserved.
One’s own emotions mattered little before the lives of others.
So I steeled my heart once more.
It was something I had done frequently on Earth as well.
At last, the Hyeonwon Jeondan Singeong restored the formation law through a thousand pieces of knowledge and a single inspiration.
I placed stones and searched for substitutes for the severed trees to divine the cardinal directions.
And finally, the water vein.
It appeared the source that would become a vein had already been blocked.
I decided to apply knowledge from the Hyeolsaeng Nogoe.
I lifted the corpse and struck its solar plexus.
Crack—
As the corpse’s ribs shattered, a stone appeared where the heart should have been.
A blood-water stone.
Blood-water stones gather yin energy and convert it into life force.
Together with Hwang-gu, I extracted the blood-water stones from the chests of all the corpses and buried them where the water vein was needed.
Even so, it wouldn’t be a true water vein and wouldn’t last long.
But that was fine. I only needed it to hold until this matter was resolved.
Whoosh—
As the formation was completed in the correct location with the proper arrangement, mist began to spread thinly across all of Mudang Mountain.
Placing my hand on the ground, I sensed the earth vein beginning to flow.
“One more should do it.”
I locate the severed point and devise a restoration plan.
Growl—
Hwang-gu, having tasted blood, was even more excited. Looking at the sky, Noeji seemed equally so.
War intoxicates both humans and beasts with blood.
Fatigue washed over me, but I pushed it aside.
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Upon arriving at the next location, there stood a massive man easily over two meters tall.
He spoke in a slow voice.
“Hmm, not wearing a Mudang’s robes.”
Without a masked person or Taoist in sight, the man sat alone in lotus position like a wall.
“You seem like some kid I’ve heard about. If you’re not a Mudang disciple, couldn’t you just pass by? I’m a pacifist, you see.”
The man grumbled in a low, slow voice.
With a drowsy expression on his face, he resembled a sloth. Yet I sensed a strange aura swirling around this man.
He was neither afraid nor tense—merely annoyed by my presence.
A pacifist from the Bloodline Bridge in the Martial Arts World was certainly peculiar.
I spoke.
“If you’re a pacifist, you don’t kill people?”
“I don’t kill people. But I do kill sacrifices.”
“Are commoners people?”
“They’re sacrifices.”
At those words, I placed my hand on the Bing Jing Sword.
“If you draw that, you become a sacrifice too.”
I replied.
“If you don’t like that, I’d appreciate it if you’d step aside.”
At my words, the man finally rose to his feet.
Crunch—
As the massive frame rose, a sound echoed as if stone were colliding against stone.
Though I perceived the formidable momentum, I spoke calmly without a trace of alarm.
“External technique?”
“That’s right. External technique granted by the Bloodline Bridge. Ever heard of Adamantine Indestructibility?”
“Then your skin would be impervious to blades.”
“Kekeke, you know of me?”
The Gold Demon.
Among those counted as the hardest in the Bloodline Bridge, he possessed skin through which sword qi could not penetrate at all.
Of all the Hyeolma I had encountered thus far, he was the strongest, the most resilient, and his speed was undoubtedly exceptional.
I brushed off my hands and gave Hwang-gu a brief hand signal.
Yelp!
Hwang-gu let out a low cry and retreated into the distance.
“Are you making your dog flee?”
“Even if he is my master, I cannot feed him dog food that his teeth cannot pierce.”
“Kekekeke. To dare call this Gold Demon dog food. You are an amusing one.”
“Where I come from, a dog’s teeth are worth more than a human’s.”
“Quite the amusing place indeed.”
In that instant, my form vanished.
Using a peculiar footwork that grafted Flowing Cloud Steps onto the Three Positions Technique, I infiltrated his blind spot and swung the Icy Crystal Sword lightly.
The mysteries of the Taeul Danseonggeom flowed into the blade as I attacked.
Clang!
Not even the slightest blemish appeared on his skin—the name adamantine was well-deserved.
With the first strike I gauged his hardness, with the second his resilience, with the third I calculated his composition. But the Gold Demon was not one to wait.
His fist covered my vision almost simultaneously.
I held the Black Pine Cloud Sword at an angle and twisted the direction of his attack using the mysteries of the Taegeuk Hye Sword.
Clang-clang-clang!
My afterimage scattered like foam upon milk, then I appeared three steps back as the Gold Demon withdrew his fist.
“Strange. I should have landed that.”
A speed incomparable to Gokgol Hyeolma.
Violence should have followed the moment of perception.
Yet neither the sensation of impact nor of evasion registered clearly, leaving the Gold Demon with a puzzled expression.
Soon he spoke.
“Well, forget it. Your attacks don’t land on me anyway. Let’s call this a draw….”
In that moment, my afterimage materialized before his eyes.
My modified absolute technique.
Water overcomes fire.
Yin and yang divide creation.
Not clumsily mimicking the Five Elements, but properly mastering the mysteries of the Taegeuk and infusing the Five Elements within it.
Backed by this first-rate inner strength, the absolute technique unfolds—the Mudang’s Pure Azure Sword!
Boom-boom-boom-crash!
The steam explosion erupting before his eyes struck the Gold Demon’s retinas with brutal force.
“Foolish trick!”
The Gold Demon shut his eyes quickly, but that was not my true aim.
The intense heat generated by the steam explosion pierced into his lungs, cooking them from within.
Born from the Five Elements, the Taegeuk, and modern knowledge of thermal expansion, my technique forced him into violent coughing.
I would not miss such an opening.
I tilted my blade sideways and struck his solar plexus as if ringing a bell.
Clang—
Using the mysteries of Taegeuk Palm with my sword, I drove the shock of Penetrating Palm directly into his organs.
“Cursed little rat—aaaaah!”
The Gold Demon flailed his fists wildly in all directions.
The fist wind alone toppled trees with a splintering crack.
A single hit would mean death.
I realized that despite mastering external cultivation, I could not block such a devastating punch.
“There you are.”
In that instant, his fist created dozens of afterimages as it bore down upon me.

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