Doctor’s Rebirth - Chapter 240

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Chapter 240
“My Master would have originally used someone else as bait. That’s why I stepped forward.”
I kept it hidden from Jin Cheon-hee, but the original plan was this.
Samjeolchuho and Mu-dang Mun-ju.
I intended to concentrate all the targets on these two people.
Samjeolchuho would never refuse—it was a chance to find clues about his younger brother.
Mun-ju would eagerly seize it as well—a chance for revenge.
But according to my calculations, if that happened, both of them would certainly die.
When emotion is poured into the blade, it becomes sluggish, and a sluggish blade becomes glue that drags people toward death.
My Master treasures his disciples above all.
Everyone else was worthless as pebbles, no matter how many were sent.
I understood this far too well.
But no matter how I calculated it, my own involvement offered the most stable survival and success rates.
So the disciple subtly twisted the Master’s strategy.
“And how could I, as a doctor, sacrifice a friend?”
“Brother. A doctor isn’t invincible across the realm. What if a doctor is a bit selfish?”
That was Sama Hyeon’s thinking.
“If it’s about drawing them out and escaping, no one is more suited than me. I have Hwang-gu, and I have Noeji.”
I could escape.
But those two with their grudges would never flee before Hyeolseonggyo.
“Ah, I wish Brother were just a little less perceptive~”
“Haha.”
“Or at least if your profession wasn’t a doctor, that would’ve been better~”
Sama Hyeon said no more and stopped teasing me.
“With a brother like this, you saved us siblings without expecting anything in return.”
I could only laugh.
My brother, always so upright, was admirable, yet sometimes worrying.
“Brother, you’re only half-believing I’ll come, aren’t you?”
“Well, yes.”
The board was already well set. I had made myself the bait, and I’d spread rumors about Dalgi’s relics.
“The odds are fifty-fifty.”
“Fifty-fifty means heaven decides~”
“Most things are like that.”
As I grew older and reflected, no matter how much I calculated and desperately prepared, often something didn’t align and everything came to nothing.
Conversely, a bat swung without confidence sometimes hit a home run.
In the end, that final piece isn’t determined by human will.
That’s why fortune tellers and geomancers make their living.
Thus the two of us circled the city once and headed toward the house Sama Hyeon had prepared, not the Murim Alliance headquarters.
A sort of safe house, filled with traps.
According to Sama Hyeon, he’d renovated it to the very edge of legality without crossing into illegality.
The officials testified that it was legally legitimate, which made it all the more suspicious.
Regardless, this safe house built with money had its advantages—whether I fled or stood my ground, fighting here would be decidedly in my favor.
‘I can’t sense Yeo Ha-ryun or Cheonwoo at all?’
I could ask Hwang-gu where they were, but since the artifact was damaged, it seemed wasteful to squander my inner energy just to ask.
‘They’re probably keeping up just fine.’
I settled deep within the mansion and waited for two hours.
Then fog suddenly began to roll in thickly.
By its scale, it seemed it might not just cover this place but possibly the entire city.
The scent of blood mixed with the smell of water droplets—it was undoubtedly artificially created fog.
At my warning, all the martial artists tensed immediately.
“They’re… coming, aren’t they?”
At my words, Sama Hyeon put on his gloves.
Heavenly Silkworm gloves.
I had made extensive preparations for this confrontation.
First, I met with my two younger brothers separately and gave each of them a Spirit Elixir.
Yeo Ha-ryun and Sama Hyeon.
For Cheonwoo, I personally helped him absorb the Primordial Clarity Divine Pill I’d given him before at a faster rate.
And I completed the Heavenly Silkworm gloves for Sama Hyeon.
I’d requested the design from the greatest craftsman in this field, and from there it was nothing but painstaking labor.
Plus, the grand prize from the Dragon-Phoenix Tournament!
The Heavenly Silkworm Garment from the Martial Records!
Thin enough to wear as an undergarment, it generates a protective aura when inner energy is channeled through it, blocking some of the force of powerful techniques.
The sect that created the Heavenly Silkworm Garment was annihilated and the technique lost, but Jegalling and I wanted to uncover it.
My master and I put our heads together to figure out how this was possible.
And the two geniuses of the Jegallga clan discovered the secret more easily than expected.
They realized that Five-Element Threads were woven between the warp and weft, creating a kind of artificial meridian.
Inner energy flowed along the Five-Element Threads, generating a protective aura much like a martial artist’s defensive technique, and I applied this principle directly to the gloves.
Uncovering the secret was one thing, but reconstructing it was arduous work.
Concentrating sword energy at a single point to insert needles between the warp and weft was no easy task.
But I thought it was a decent training method, so I devoted myself to it day after day.
Midway through, I became inspired and even embroidered designs on the wrists.
That’s how the ‘Heavenly Silkworm Gauntlets’ were completed.
When Sama Hyeon received them, he was so moved he named them the White Dragon Gauntlets.
The White Dragon Gauntlets, dyed black, were born as a martial record through the meeting of two geniuses and one artifact.
Sama Hyeon deliberately pulled up the gloves I had made.
“Fights are won with equipment.”
…This was a provocation.
A provocation toward Yeo Ha-ryun and Jin Cheon-woo, who were watching from somewhere.
‘I’m the younger brother who receives the most favor from my older brother! Look! These gloves!’
He got along well enough with Cheonwoo, but Sama Hyeon and Yeo Ha-ryun had a terribly bad relationship.
Both Cheonwoo and Yeo Ha-ryun coveted the Heavenly Silkworm Armor and asked me if I could make another, but unfortunately.
Only Heavenly Silkworm Grade fabric could trigger the protective energy response.
I experimented with Hundred Silkworm Grade fabric, but the cloth tore before I could even deploy the protective energy, rendering it useless.
The two of them promised to obtain it before the season changed, but I’m currently researching a method to create it with just Hundred Silkworm Grade fabric.
No matter how I think about it, Heavenly Silkworm Grade isn’t anyone’s child’s name, and there’s no way it’s easy to obtain.
‘Still, I don’t see any enemies, just the mist growing thicker and thicker?’
No matter how thick the mist was, it couldn’t deceive Hwang-gu’s nose and Noeji’s eyes.
A futile effort.
The moment I thought that, a deafening boom echoed from afar.
Kwaaaaaang!
Turning around at the explosion, it was coming from the Martial Alliance headquarters.
Startled, Sama Hyeon and I immediately rushed onto the rooftop.
The Martial Alliance headquarters was ablaze.
Explosions continued in succession. Sama Hyeon spoke.
“Brother. These guys are truly insane~ attacking the Martial Alliance headquarters outright? But they’re not targeting you? That’s a bit unexpected, isn’t it?”
“No. That can’t be right.”
A chill ran across my retinas.
Blue light immediately discerned the enemy’s next move.
“Feint and strike elsewhere…! Hwang-gu! Guard the perimeter!”
Clang! Clang clang!
In that instant, Hwang-gu’s fur bristled like a porcupine.
What that meant was only one thing.
Whiiiiish!
A blue spiritual projectile embedded itself in the ground.
Kwaaaaaang!
Evading it with ease, someone parted the mist and appeared.
Having deceived the formation and even the senses of spiritual creatures, he smiled at me.
“Hello. I’m Yo Cheon-gun. Pleased to meet you. Shall we be friends?”
The mysterious figure greeted Sama Hyeon and me cheerfully.
He wore a serpent-emblazoned mask on his face, and his robe hung loosely.
But beneath that loose robe, he wore an undergarment made of snakeskin, with the scales still intact.
His voice overall sounded like a screw was loose.
Yet the moment I realized what kind of being he was, cold sweat ran down my spine.
‘Yo Cheon-gun! So he was the mastermind behind all this…?’
Hisss. Hissss. Ssshhh.
Beyond the mist, the breathing of snakes filled the air. An enormous number of serpents lurked within that fog, appearing at some unknown time.
I clenched my teeth.
‘A curse master and snake master. His martial prowess is half below the other Heavenly Generals. But due to his diverse curses and ability to command snakes, he’s more troublesome and irritating than the other Heavenly Generals… Especially noteworthy is the black-horned serpent he raises.’
Controlling rats and snakes was his basic ability, and his quiet, swift movements were his specialty.
Controlling rats or snakes is his basic ability, and his specialty is his quiet and quick movements.
The original work had described how her body temperature was lower than ordinary humans, making it extremely difficult to detect her presence.
[Hyeon-a. She’s one of the ten highest executives of Hyeolseonggyo. She possesses the ability to handle sorcery and snakes. And her martial prowess….]
Quickly, I transmitted information about the enemy to Sama Hyeon through sound transmission.
“This scheme was quite taxing to execute. My children suffered greatly as well. How did you figure it out?”
Yo Cheon-gun asked in a casual tone, but I and Sama Hyeon raised our inner energy and remained vigilant.
And between the three of us locked in standoff,
a small snake peeked out from within Yo Cheon-gun’s loose sleeve.
A blue serpent bearing small black horns about an inch long.
[Brother~ Is that the Black-Horned Snake?]
[Yes. You must never let it bite you. It possesses a toxin difficult to handle unless you’ve reached at least the realm of a Toxin Master.]
Even at my current level, I had no confidence in detoxifying its venom.
[That’s troublesome~]
[The opponent is a Flame Realm cultivator. One who even eyes the Transcendent Flame Realm.]
[This is dangerous….]
“Oh my. You lot. Are you ignoring me?”
Yo Cheon-gun’s sleeve flutters once.
Ping!
Something flew at us with a very faint sound.
Sensing it coming almost simultaneously with the sound, I dodged it by the narrowest of margins.
Rustle.
However, it seemed I hadn’t completely evaded it—some of my hair was severed.
“Hmm. Quite impressive. There’s a reason Hyeolseon commanded that you be offered as a sacrifice.”
Yo Cheon-gun steps forward, treading on part of the roof.
“Then… become a sacrifice obediently?”
I drew the Icy Frost Blade, and from the sky, Noeji summoned lightning.
As Sama Hyeon’s tendons in both hands writhed, Hwang-gu’s body swelled up.
I feigned a defensive stance while rapidly sending hand signals.
It was an order to Cheonwoo and Yeo Ha-ryun, who were hiding somewhere, to ambush when they saw an opening.
Fortunately, Yo Cheon-gun seemed unaware of their ambush.
‘If he had noticed, I was prepared to retreat without hesitation. So far, everything proceeds according to plan.’
The blood battle commenced.
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At the very moment Yo Cheon-gun attacked Sama Hyeon and me,
the main headquarters of the Martial Alliance was also under attack.
The main headquarters of the Martial Alliance possessed the scale of a small city, and its expanse far exceeded that of an ordinary grand estate.
Because so many martial artists were stationed there, attacking the Martial Alliance’s main headquarters could be called madness by ‘conventional methods’.
Powerful formation arrays. Countless martial artists. Ingeniously constructed buildings.
The Martial Alliance was the greatest gathering place of orthodox martial sects.
That the Martial Alliance’s main headquarters was now engulfed in chaos was not due to any ordinary reason.
It was because those conducting the attack had employed extraordinary methods.
Moreover, the previous assault had created openings, and most of the martial artists whose business with the Yongbong Society had concluded were beginning to depart, adding to the chaos.
The martial artists remaining now were primarily those who originally guarded the Martial Alliance, the warriors injured in the previous incident, and their sect members.
And a few sects whose return had been delayed due to negotiations with merchant guilds and escort agencies.
Thus, the Martial Alliance was floundering with its defenses exposed.
It was an undeniable fact that many were dying in this chaos.

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