Doctor’s Rebirth - Chapter 245

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Chapter 245
Yo Cheon-gun still had no intention of killing Jin Cheon-hee, the sacrifice before him.
The moment the seed of Half-Immortality leaped directly into his space, Yo Cheon-gun’s lips curved into a bloodstained smile.
Each calculating differently, I steeled my resolve.
I trusted in the Hyeonwon Jeondan Singeong, trusted in the martial arts I had cultivated. I trusted my Master, trusted my younger brother.
And finally, I trusted my blade.
I charged forward!
Tang—!
Like a raging bull’s unstoppable charge, Yo Cheon-gun’s upper body undulated with serpentine grace, spinning in a fluid circle.
Within movements impossible for a human spine, Yo Cheon-gun’s left hand writhed joyfully toward me.
“Ah, you moved too hastily!”
“….”
I did not answer.
Every last shred of remaining inner energy poured into the tree of cognition.
‘I end this here!’
Thoughts winding upon themselves flowed like a river, finally splitting and scattering like lightning, connecting onward.
A modern person’s consciousness crashed into the Hyeonwon Jeondan Singeong, which trained the Five Elements to their absolute limits.
Yo Cheon-gun’s movements, habits, martial art characteristics, eye movements, muscle responses, hair movements, finger directions, flexibility range, the destructive power and limits of the Five Elements Mutual Destruction Poison, the durability of the dragon-scale armor, the remaining measurement of my inner energy.
Swallowing countless pieces of information again and again, the young man with an old man’s eyes continued forward.
I saw Yo Cheon-gun’s hand approaching like a serpent’s mouth.
Within thought accelerated to its extreme, the opponent’s movements seemed as slow as a tortoise.
I brought my equally slow blade to its correct path.
For me, a life-or-death strike was like a problem and its answer.
A wrong answer meant death; a correct answer meant survival.
Clang!
Correct.
“You blocked that?!”
Yo Cheon-gun could not comprehend this phenomenon.
The depth of inner energy and the profundity of martial arts were the two most important factors dividing the hierarchy among warriors.
The fair youth before him possessed deep inner energy, yet it was incomparable to Yo Cheon-gun’s, and while his martial arts shone brightly for his age, they were utterly shallow compared to his own.
A blade slower than Yo Cheon-gun’s precisely blocked exactly where it needed to.
Yo Cheon-gun felt it.
The youth was moving before him!
Was it not as if he were seeing three seconds into the future?
At the crossroads of life and death, I calculated.
‘The powerful energy of the Five Elements Mutual Destruction Poison will block the Icy Blade Technique of the Frozen Jade Blade. It will suppress my blade energy and coil around my blade like a serpent.’
Ssssshhh!
The moment my foresight ended.
Yo Cheon-gun’s hand suppressed my blade energy, coiling around it in a serpentine spiral.
Even this process felt infinitely slow within the accelerated world.
‘Ultimately, he’ll try to grab my hand and channel the poison through it. That moment will be my opportunity.’
The moment my deeper consciousness absorbed all the information and devised a countermeasure.
My surface consciousness effortlessly predicted Yo Cheon-gun’s next move.
And without fail, his hand slithered toward mine like a serpent, his fingers spreading like a snake’s fangs.
Just as his fingers were about to pierce through like venomous fangs.
I finally made my next move, deliberately slow.
As I let the Bing Jeong Sword fall away, I met his hand with my bare palm.
Though his mask hid his expression, his lips alone betrayed considerable surprise.
But that shock was fleeting.
“Whatever you’re attempting, you must be mad to seek death? Krkrkrk!”
Seeing this as an opportunity of his own, he drove his fingers down directly toward the back of my hand.
Crackle!
Excruciating pain flooded through me.
For a moment, consciousness threatened to slip away, but the Hyeonwon Jeondan Singeong kept my mind anchored and alert.
‘Hnngh… Just as planned, the poison from the Four Corpse Blood Poison Art can no longer invade my body.’
The Five Elements Divine Art.
Extreme Minor Five Elements Mutual Destruction.
A microscopic explosion erupted within the back of my hand.
It possessed more than enough power to incinerate the poison from the Four Corpse Blood Poison Art.
When I first faced him, I had realized something.
That my Five Elements Mutual Destruction Poison could never block his poison.
Yet to defeat him, I had to block it somehow.
Throughout our battle, I had to formulate strategies, exchange blows, and test theories.
Continuously arranging formations with my younger siblings to maintain the advantage.
No one could have noticed.
The tactical depth of fighting while directing my siblings was itself a complete strategy, beyond exaggeration.
Yet even that alone would not secure victory.
To avoid becoming a handful of blood
before the monster that was Yo Cheon-gun.
To prevent anyone from dying or being gravely wounded, I had to transcend an insurmountable wall.
Five Elements Mutual Destruction.
I recalled the sensation from the Dragon Phoenix Gathering finals when I reversed my own Five Elements and used that destructive force against Yeo Ha-ryun.
Five Elements Mutual Destruction ultimately reverses the Five Elements that compose the world, reducing them to nothingness.
Poison, being merely one manifestation within the Five Elements, was no exception.
What if I annihilated the poison before it could spread?
What if I made it smaller?
What if I triggered minute explosions in each individual vital point?
From my battle with Yeo Ha-ryun, I had learned how far my vital points, my dantian, could endure.
What if I applied that knowledge now?
Why don’t you try using it?
A genius of utmost compassion and self-sacrifice had finally discovered the answer.
I succeeded in controlling it perfectly.
I infused the power of the Five Elements Divine Art into my entire hand.
“What is this?!”
Yo Cheon-gun was the first to realize that the poison was not working.
As his shock registered, my entire hand blazed with searing heat, then abruptly released a biting cold.
But that was not all.
The five energies of the Five Elements Divine Art began to rotate and extend from my hand.
At last, I had crossed the barrier.
“Five Elements Divine Art—Five Elements Genesis.”
If one can use the Five Elements to annihilate, then the opposite is also possible.
Genesis—to open and create anew.
Destroy and destroy again. New wine must be poured into new vessels.
Everything begins anew from the start.
This grand final supreme technique of recreating the world through the Five Elements was a form of Heart Destruction Ultimate Technique.
Ordinarily, I could not have wielded this.
The martial knowledge of Cheonma Divine Art that I received from Cheonma assisted it.
Strictly speaking, it appeared to be of the Jegal Family, but internally it was a peculiar hybrid technique mixing the martial arts of the Mudang and the Demonic Sect!
‘It’s laughable that I can only use limited power even with this….’
A bitter smile escaped me.
But it was fine.
If I could draw upon what I needed, that was enough.
“You little brat–!”
Yo Cheon-gun’s face flushed crimson with rage. I answered his fury calmly.
“You underestimated people far too much. Though I suppose that’s natural for you.”
The gap between a chick and a lion. Could it truly be overcome?
The young man’s blue eyes gleamed as I made my next move.
The energies of the Five Elements rotated and flowed.
The martial knowledge that had reached Heart Destruction Ultimate Technique through this hybrid method became a pressure like Mount Tai bearing down, gathering in my hand.
Crunch—
The poisonous qi of the Four Serpents Blood Poison Art was crushed in an instant, and Yo Cheon-gun’s hand was completely immobilized, seized by me.
The function of Five Elements Genesis was entirely different and distinct from the Five Elements Mutual Destruction I had learned before.
If the Five Elements Mutual Destruction I used against Yeo Ha-ryun was a Heart Destruction Ultimate Technique that devoted everything to annihilation.
Then Five Elements Genesis was.
Adherence—to cling and attach.
It drew everything toward Five Elements Genesis.
It shared similarities with the Cheonma Sovereign Domain that Yeo Ha-ryun had used before, but the martial knowledge within was entirely different.
Not mere pressure, but through emptiness, it pulled everything in as if devouring it.
The Four Serpents Blood Poison Art twisted.
“Twisting the vital qi…?!”
Befitting the name Five Elements Apocalypse, Yo Cheon-gun felt all his movements sealed in an instant.
But a shortcut remains a shortcut.
Normally, one could only use this after reaching Hwagyeong and waiting a long time—the price of forcing it prematurely.
And that price could only be cruel.
Splurt.
The back of my hand burst open.
As my skin split and blood sprayed forth, what had been floating in empty space circled back like time itself, returning to the back of my hand.
That was it.
Even if my extremely refined Five Elements forcibly grasped martial arts from a distant place, my body ultimately lacked the capacity to withstand it.
The power that incinerated even the toxins of Four Serpents Blood Poison Art was now burning through my body instead.
“This insane brat!”
Crack—
Conversely, Yo Cheon-gun’s hand twisted and began breaking in the same way.
He gasped in alarm and thrust his other hand forward like lightning.
Who could have imagined such a situation?
Yo Cheon-gun desperately poured all his strength into his other hand.
Now that it had come to this, he had no choice but to kill the sacrifice!
Four Serpents Blood Poison Art.
Heart Severing Absolute Technique.
Myriad Things Dissolution.
The supreme extreme poison that melts all things.
That extreme poison’s force shot toward me.
One hand from each of us was already locked together, bound by Five Elements Apocalypse. Moreover, I was pouring all my strength into maintaining Five Elements Apocalypse, leaving no reserves.
In other words, I could neither block nor evade that attack.
‘As expected… when his own life is in danger, he discards my life. That much went according to plan.’
I calmly faced the death approaching before my eyes.
I had foreseen this too.
And in that moment.
Crack, crackle!
It was a darkness as if it had swallowed every night in this world.
That darkness erupted from behind Yo Cheon-gun and grasped his hand directly.
It began to coil around and devour the Myriad Things Dissolution of the Four Serpents Blood Poison force.
The Black Dragon swallows, and swallows.
And just as a gleaming sword pressed down upon the Myriad Things Dissolution, a crimson hand completely seized the Four Serpents Blood Poison force and twisted it.
Three different martial arts clashed at a single point.
Crunch, crunch, crunch—
The Four Serpents Blood Poison force finally ruptured.
Boom!
At the same time, both of Yo Cheon-gun’s arms shattered completely and exploded.
The fact that he did not scream even amid this spoke to how much of a monster Yo Cheon-gun was, transcending reason itself.
However, I couldn’t help but feel a surge of shock rising within me as my mouth fell open.
“So this is the landscape my brother had calculated all along.”
“Well, it’s no different from the Mudang Mountains. This brother of mine.”
“Mudang Mountains? It was like this at Hao-mun too. This man….”
In that instant, Yeo Ha-ryun reached out and seized Yo Cheon-gun’s throat in one swift motion.
With both arms lost, Yo Cheon-gun’s inner energy was completely shattered and his vital channels churned violently.
In a humiliation that would come only once in a lifetime, I spoke.
“Yeo Ha-ryun. He’s valuable information. We need to interrogate him….”
“Understood.”
Cheonma True Energy flowed down his throat.
Into the shattered and churning vital channels, the Cheonma True Energy poured in without resistance, delivering an agony that would last eons.
“Krrrraaaaaaagh–!”
My brother had said not to kill him, but he hadn’t said to knock him out gently either.
Through a pain that stretched like an eternity in mere moments, Yo Cheon-gun finally lost consciousness.
His vital points were suppressed by the Cheonma True Energy.
Sama Hyeon whistled.
“Wow, torturing and knocking him out? The Demonic Sect sure knows how to make things convenient. But wouldn’t it be better to keep him conscious for interrogation?”
“Too troublesome if he goes berserk.”
“That’s fair.”
I knew that once vital points were suppressed like this, he could never escape until either Cheonma or Yeo Ha-ryun released him.
Cheonwoo approached.
“Brother, are you alright?”
He carefully supported me.
Across the back of my hands, along my arms, at my neck.
Blood poured heavily from the torn skin.
Eventually, the largest among us, Cheonwoo, carried me on his back.
“We need to find a Doctor quickly….”
As my consciousness grew hazy, I heard Hwang-gu barking toward somewhere.
Was it my Master?
It was quite a remote place—how did he find us so quickly?
With that thought, I lost consciousness.

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