Doctor’s Rebirth - Chapter 230

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Chapter 230
[I’m your older brother, so listen to what I say.]
At those words, I sensed that Yeo Ha-ryun behind the mask was smiling.
[I remember the old days. When you first told me to call you my older brother, I suggested we settle it through martial prowess. You answered that it would be meaningless since you were just a commoner.]
It was from back when I first saved Yeo Ha-ryun and formed a sworn brotherhood with him.
It seemed he still remembered how I had brazenly claimed the position of older brother back then.
‘Well, I suppose I can’t help but feel a bit swindled now.’
I had been half-deceiving him, after all. I’d already learned the Eight Extraordinary Meridians technique and was fully prepared to study martial arts, yet I’d claimed to be a mere commoner.
[How about we settle that match from back then? ‘Older brother’?]
[If I lose, you become the older brother?]
Yeo Ha-ryun answered my telepathic transmission calmly.
[That’s impossible. Once I’ve accepted you as my older brother, that doesn’t change. However, if you lose, I’ll act as I please from now on.]
Act as he pleases? What does that mean?
As I tried to object, Yeo Ha-ryun spoke once more.
[If you’re truly my older brother, then prove it with martial prowess befitting that role. This one battle will determine how I act going forward.]
The telepathic transmission ended there.
After that, Yeo Ha-ryun gave no further response.
‘Yes, I knew this day would come.’
Even though Yeo Ha-ryun was called the beast of Cheon Sal-seong, the him from childhood was still an innocent young child.
My brazenly claiming the position of older brother… I nearly died in the process, but it was still ‘relatively’ easy.
However, this wasn’t something I could evade forever.
I knew that someday I would have to see the conclusion of that conversation I’d avoided back then.
‘He’s the protagonist. The future Cheonma walking the path of tyranny.’
At his core, he was still a beast.
I took a deep breath.
‘Yes. I’ll show you.’
As the crowd roared, the referee stepped onto the Dueling Arena.
Since this was the final match, the introductions of Yeo Ha-ryun and myself were quite lengthy.
To be precise, the introduction of Yeo Ha-ryun was brief due to limited information, while my introduction was extraordinarily long.
와아아아아—!
Just as the crowd’s fervor seemed sufficiently heated, the referee shouted.
“Exchange courtesies!”
Yeo Ha-ryun and I clasped our fists and immediately took our opening stances.
Then the referee called out.
“Begin!”
지이이이잉—!
With the sound of the gong, I drew the Icy Frost Blade from the very start.
At the same moment, Yeo Ha-ryun unleashed Cheonma True Qi throughout his entire body.
I could see the pitch-black qi flowing through Yeo Ha-ryun’s form, as dark as his pupils.
‘I never expected it to be visible so clearly!’
I tasted a hint of despair at the realization that his achievements exceeded my expectations.
‘No matter how much of a protagonist he is, I should have accumulated more fortuitous encounters than this…?’
By all visual appearances, he seemed to be at the Hwagyeong stage…
Could he have already reached Hwagyeong?
According to the original story, that should still be impossible.
But since my opponent is the ‘protagonist,’ he might just make the impossible possible.
[I’m going, hyung.]
Yeo Ha-ryun took one step forward with that declaration.
Cheonma Kungnimbo.
쿠그그극—
The essence of formless energy pressed down upon both shoulders.
The martial technique created by a single step was so profound that sighs of admiration echoed from warriors scattered throughout the arena.
‘As expected, that’s his opening move. I’ve already prepared my counter.’
Whoooosh!
A five-colored mist began to swirl around me.
It was easy to mistake it for the sword energy cloud sea that Cheonwoo had once unleashed, but it was not.
‘My apologies, honored priests. I also wish to survive.’
When I first saw the priests, it must have appeared on the surface that I was merely joking around with Sama Hyeon.
However, I carefully observed how they protected the Dueling Arena.
Just as I had once restored the lost formations of the Mudang Sect, formations ultimately share similar principles.
Identify the phenomenon, deconstruct it, and reassemble it.
That is the function of Hyeonwon Jeondan Singeong, and the reason the Jegal Family are masters of formations!
My own application.
Jincheon Hee-sik Application.
여의오행진—!
Since this type of formation is constructed temporarily, there is no need to observe the heavenly stems—only the directions and energy meridians need to be read.
The priests’ eyes widened as their formation technique was hijacked!
Even they couldn’t tell if this was against the rules or not.
‘Tch! Might as well use some righteous sect posturing! I won’t lose to the Demonic Sect!’
The five-colored energy mist, formed from qi, bolstered the Jegal Family’s Five Elements Formation energy and offset the pressure from Yeo Ha-ryun’s formless energy.
Tssk! Tssk!
Energy collided against energy, producing an eerie sound.
Compared to the formations I had once activated in the Mudang Sect, this method was far more concise, yet the essence remained intact.
This was not an opponent I could afford to be choosy with.
‘I’ve blocked Yeo Ha-ryun’s opening move. Now it’s my turn!’
The moment the pressure released, I immediately launched my counterattack.
Taeul Danseonggeom.
Heart Technique – Heaven and Earth Single Slash.
An absolute technique that severs all things extended from my hand.
Its range stretched a full ten zhang!
In other words, anything within thirty meters in a straight line would be severed in a single strike.
‘With Cheonwoo, I would have controlled my power, but I won’t show you such mercy!’
However.
Something astonishing occurred.
The moment Yeo Ha-ryun extended his hand and waved it, a pitch-black current of energy began to rise.
Crackle—
The space itself began to warp as if shimmering with heat haze.
As a result.
My blade’s force curved and slashed past to the right, grazing through empty air.
Boom—!
‘…Damn it, he’s already reached the level of wielding that technique? Has he lost his mind?’
I knew what this was.
I had never witnessed it before, but I had read about it in novels.
The Cheonma Divine Art.
Blade of the Heart – Heaven and Earth Bending Void.
One of the supreme techniques of the Cheonma Divine Art!
However, to properly unleash the Cheonma Divine Art, one must reach at least the Hwagyeong realm.
The reason being that from the fourth stage of the Cheonma Divine Art onward, one must firmly reach the realm of the Intentional Qi Master, where one controls qi through willpower alone.
Only then can one use martial techniques requiring powerful qi and say, ‘I’ve finally obtained my beginner’s certification in the Cheonma Divine Art.’
Since the required ability threshold is Hwagyeong, the Cheonma Divine Art’s characteristic is the ability to dominate the surrounding environment.
When one reaches the Hyeongyeong realm and perfects the Cheonma Divine Art’s Hwahu stage, one supposedly reaches a level where a single gesture commands the life and death of all things around them.
That was the realm of the Cheonma I had encountered before.
Heaven and Earth Bending Void was one such technique.
It warps space itself.
One must achieve the sixth stage of the Cheonma Divine Art to use it, but obtaining the sixth stage achievement is difficult in itself.
[You’re truly my brother. That blade technique from moments ago was dangerous.]
‘Please, spare this brother of mine….’
Contrary to my inner thoughts, I responded calmly through sound transmission.
[And you—your Cheonma Divine Art’s Hwahu has reached the sixth stage.]
[….]
At those words, Yeo Ha-ryun’s aura shifted in an instant.
[Brother, you’re truly my brother. How do you know the secrets of the Cheonma Divine Art?]
I knew from reading novels, but I couldn’t answer that way.
I gave the answer closest to the truth.
[The Cheonma came and flicked my brow, then left.]
[?!]
A wave of qi that couldn’t be called sound transmission.
Yet I could understand what it meant and what emotion it carried.
[It sounds insane, but it’s the truth.]
[…Yes. You are indeed unpredictable. The current Cheonma is…. I understand. If brother already knows….]
Behind the mask, Yeo Ha-ryun’s eyes began to glow crimson through the hollow eye sockets.
[My brother and I have inadvertently acquired the martial knowledge of the same technique.]
The black pupils, which had been spreading like drops of blood, now shone with a complete ruby radiance.
Black energy condensed around Yeo Ha-ryun, emanating an ominous sound.
[That’s right. You were the only one who extended your hand to me first, brother—I who bear the Cheon Sal-seong curse. So I will trust you and give everything I have.]
‘This mad Cheon Sal-seong fool doesn’t even consider that he might kill his brother through loss of control?’
Well, unless he unleashed a killing strike from the very beginning, it’s unusual in martial arts novels for the protagonist to accidentally kill his sworn brother during a duel through miscalculated force. Unusual, but…
Yeo Ha-ryun moved.
Cheonma Divine Art.
Heart Technique—Sun and Moon Rupture Dance.
콰득, 콰득, 쿠콰콰콰콰콰—!
The ground beneath Yeo Ha-ryun began to crumble.
‘He’s using the Sun and Moon Rupture Dance?’
A killing technique that spreads invisible, formless energy in the pattern of the heart technique.
Demonic energy that grinds everything around him like a blender, sparing only himself.
The internal energy consumption is extreme, and even a warrior who has reached the Hyeonwon stage would find it impossible to block this head-on.
‘He’s really using that…?’
Yeo Ha-ryun is only in his early twenties.
He’s already unleashing a killing-class technique.
Even Yeo Ha-ryun himself seems burdened—his complexion visible beneath the mask has grown slightly pale.
[Here we go, brother. I’m coming. Sun and Moon Rupture Dance linked technique. Sun and Moon Rupture Fist.]
Deliberately revealing the technique’s name was his way of offering me a chance to surrender.
He must have thought that someone forcibly taught the Cheonma Divine Art by Cheonma herself would understand its power.
‘But I have no intention of backing down either.’
Yeo Ha-ryun said that if he won, he would do as he pleased.
If that meant the murderous path from the original story, then I had to block it with all my strength!
[You’re not dodging after all, brother.]
Yeo Ha-ryun threw a punch.
The tremendous force of the Sun and Moon Rupture Dance surged toward me.
‘Alright. Let me show you the depths of this brother’s power.’
Taeul Danseonggeom.
Heart Technique—Heaven and Earth Single Slash.
[Brother. I predicted that much.]
The moment Yeo Ha-ryun’s transmission ended, my sword path unexpectedly deviated from his prediction.
Five Elements Divine Art.
Heart Technique—Five Elements Annihilation Extreme.
The superior technique of Water Conquers Fire and Yin-Yang Genesis from the past.
Transcending enlightenment through the Life-Death Knot, meeting the edge of the heart technique’s end, where Hyeonwon Jeondan Singeong swallowed Cheonma Divine Art.
Where does martial arts lead?
The second step.
‘Reverse the Five Elements.’
Mutual generation becomes mutual destruction. As water and fire collide, now all five elements crash against one another, creating this power!
‘Will my dantian survive this?’
Even in such circumstances, my concern for what comes after stems from my true nature as a Doctor.
Everything within the explosion’s radius shatters and is obliterated.
If the soft cannot control the hard, then the hard must ultimately be suppressed by hardness itself.
콰과과과광—!
Heart method clashes against heart method as the Dueling Arena explodes.
Some spectators were buried under the debris of the blast.
Something that should never have occurred due to the formation’s protection had come to pass.
Thus arose the cloud of dust.
In the deafening silence where not a single breath could be drawn, I stood swaying in the center of the Dueling Arena.
“…Ugh…. I’m practically dead.”
Spitting up black blood, I barely supported myself using my sword as a cane.
And before me.
Yeo Ha-ryun stood.
He showed no visible injuries compared to me, and his complexion and breathing remained steady and regular.
However, the location where Yeo Ha-ryun stood….
“Out of bounds!”
“Out of bounds, he’s out of bounds!”

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