Doctor’s Rebirth - Chapter 247

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Chapter 247
“There’s hardly anything to regret. He’s not going to shed tears now over devouring a young child’s entrails, nor is the only revelation that Yo Cheon-gun’s body moves in a manner different from ours?”
“You mean it’s a heretical martial art?”
“Hmm, rather than that, I’d say half-man, half-beast? There are no signs of transformation, but his body has undergone partial changes, or so they say.”
Clack.
Cheonwoo deliberately set down his bowl with a sound.
It was clearly a warning.
A warning to Sama Hyeon—don’t bring up complicated matters when the elder brother is suffering.
True to his perceptive nature, Sama Hyeon immediately understood and gave a small nod.
Cheonwoo changed the subject.
“Elder brother, are you in any pain?”
“Master sealed my pressure points so thoroughly that I have no sensation below my neck.”
Without mentioning releasing my pressure points or even pleading with Baek Rin-ui-seon, Cheonwoo simply said:
“We’ll take turns applying counter-pressure techniques when we return. I’m worried you need to recover quickly.”
He’s quite stubborn, this one.
* * *
My Master kept his word exactly as he had spoken it.
Five days.
I had to remain completely immobilized with my meridians suppressed.
‘Good heavens, is there anything this tedious in the world?’
If I could at least move my arms, I could pass the time reading, but that wasn’t possible.
Or if I could circulate my inner energy at all, I could spend even a fraction of an ant’s claw worth of time cultivating my martial power, but that too was forbidden.
In the end, the only times I truly looked forward to were when Cheonwoo, Sama Hyeon, my Master, and these three people would visit.
However….
‘My dignity as an elder brother has fled the scene.’
It was heartbreaking.
The scene I had envisioned was facing the final boss and displaying martial prowess that my younger brothers could never achieve, vanquishing the enemy.
After that, there would be a period of recuperation, but it would be ‘these too are glorious wounds. Alas… is the path of a warrior truly this arduous?’ —the solitary life of a lonely Gangho warrior uttering such dignified words.
A sight rarely seen in modern martial arts novels these days, yet one that ignites the hearts of middle-aged men!
I had imagined such a solitary wolf-like figure.
But reality was….
“Elder brother, I’ll turn you onto your back. One, two… I’ll apply counter-pressure to your vital points, so if you regain any sensation, please tell me.”
“And if I tell you, you’ll seal my pressure points again and paralyze me?”
“Hahaha, I would never do that, elder brother. I’ll keep it secret.”
‘I can already see the future where you say that and then seal my pressure points anyway, Cheonwoo.’
This isn’t even like nursing someone through a stroke!
Nursing care is reality.
‘No, in martial arts novels, you just apply internal injury medicine or trauma salve once and watch the character’s HP fill up like a video game! Why can’t I do that!’
Reality was a battle against various compound fractures, inflammation, and wounds.
Of course, my recovery was incomparably faster than an ordinary person’s, and my durability was exceptional, but only to that extent.
If my body couldn’t withstand the impact, I’d still end up injured either way.
“This is unfair. Something… something feels so unjust. This is genuinely unfair. Cheonwoo, I’m really upset about this.”
Rain was falling softly in my heart.
Yet Cheonwoo smiled brightly and struck an acupoint on my back.
Since I’d been having my acupoints sealed for so long, I had to periodically have them released like this to keep my meridians from stagnating.
“Master Baek Rin-ui-seon said you’ll probably recover soon.”
“No… I’m telling you, I’m upset.”
I’d been coaxing and cajoling Cheonwoo, the one I thought would be most sympathetic, and even played the pitiful card.
But Cheonwoo was stubborn.
He answered politely and gently, yet never fell for my schemes and refused to release my acupoints.
“Fine, forget it.”
“Instead, I’ll bring you whatever you want to eat, brother.”
Just then, the door creaked open.
From my angle, I couldn’t see their face clearly, but it seemed a warrior from the Martial Alliance had delivered a letter.
After reading it through once, Cheonwoo spoke.
“Brother, today is the last day. Tomorrow they’ll release your acupoints!”
“Hurraaaaay!”
Finally, this ordeal was over!
* * *
When all my treatment finally ended, the cleanup from the Dragon Phoenix Assembly’s incident concluded simultaneously.
While I lay recovering, the remaining sects gradually withdrew completely, leaving the Martial Alliance quiet and empty.
Of course, that was only on the surface.
Word was that the senior members of each sect remained at the Martial Alliance, continuing to discuss the elimination of the Hyeolseonggyo.
Regardless of that.
The moment my precious disciple recovered, Baekrin Uigak was preoccupied with preparations for withdrawal.
“Please gather all those materials in one place. The Martial Alliance says they’ll take possession of some of it.”
Startled by the familiar voice, I lifted my head to find Yoo Ho naturally mixed among the workers.
“Oh, Yoo Ho? You followed me all the way here?”
“I departed immediately upon hearing that you had collapsed, Young Master.”
“What? So you arrived in almost five days?”
“Precisely six days, sir.”
‘Yoo Ho, can you use the Spatial Folding technique?’
Considering the distance from Baekrin Uigak to the Martial Alliance, even traveling at top speed with lightness martial arts would be tight on time.
This fellow really is a master of spatial folding… or something like that?
He was always strange, but the more I see him, the stranger he becomes.
“Still, it’s clear enough how renowned you’ve become, Young Master.”
“Haha, is that so?”
“Beyond the alias ‘White Divine Dragon,’ everyone knows of how you captured one of the Hyeolseonggyo’s ten senior executives.”
“Hehe, I didn’t do it alone though.”
“When will you be able to use that arm again?”
That was true.
The minor wounds and meridian damage had healed, but one arm remained in a cast.
The arm that Yo Cheon-gun had seized.
The limb beneath the cast still bore discoloration, and its recovery was slow.
Once this arm was fully healed, my Five Elements Mutual Destruction Poison would reach the realm of Heavenly Poison Imperviousness.
“I’m using Five Elements True Qi to accelerate the healing, but it seems it will take some time.”
“How pathetic.”
“You’re really something.”
I said this with a tone that didn’t betray any genuine displeasure.
In truth, I felt a quiet reassurance that Yoo Ho had come.
This was because as I issued directives and reviewed each task one by one, Yoo Ho began assisting with remarkable speed.
‘I mustn’t speak of Dalgi’s relics.’
I still remembered the words my Master had let slip in passing.
I couldn’t discern what relationship existed between Dalgi and Yoo Ho, but I had no intention of carelessly broaching the subject.
After all, he was a being whose very nature—human or otherwise—remained unknowable.
“Regarding that arm of yours.”
“Hmm?”
“I’ve procured an inner elixir particularly effective against serpent venom. If you consume it, the arm will heal quickly.”
“What?”
Yoo Ho’s expression turned irritated.
“The thought of you complaining about arm pain while dumping work onto me makes me feel nauseous.”
“Oh! Our Yoo Ho was worried about me.”
“Tsk. Since it’s obvious the Master would be concerned, there’s no helping it.”
Yoo Ho answered with an emotionless, colorless tone.
The irritation that had shown moments before vanished entirely, replaced by that inorganic demeanor that felt all the more alien.
“Your loyalty is quite remarkable.”
Yoo Ho—Jegalling’s subordinate. After Jegalling’s death, his whereabouts became unknown.
In the original work, he was a minor character barely developed.
I had already come to recognize that he was no ordinary person.
Yet that loyalty bordering on madness that occasionally surfaced—where did it truly originate?
Such questions circled within my mind, but I never voiced them aloud.
By now, I had learned that some things were better left unasked.
“For that reason, I am genuinely grateful to you, Young Master.”
“Has the sun started rising in the west?”
Grateful?
My expression shifted to one of surprise at Yoo Ho’s words, but he simply gazed at me steadily before turning away.
“The Master has been moving about in good health for the first time in ages. That much is certainly thanks to you, Young Master. Now then, I shall take my leave to attend to my duties.”
With those words, Yoo Ho departed into the distance.
Before long, preparations for departure were complete.
“Then we shall depart!”
Perhaps it was because I couldn’t use one arm.
This time, a carriage was prepared instead of a horse.
As I settled into the large carriage, I reflected on what had transpired.
‘Wow… that was truly an incredible gathering of dragons and phoenixes.’
Still, the good memories outnumbered the bad ones.
Though I wouldn’t want to do it twice.
* * *
Within a pitch-black cavern.
Someone stood before a pond made of blood at its center.
[Is Yo Cheon-gun dead?]
[Dead or alive, it amounts to the same thing, doesn’t it?]
[The possibility of him leaking secrets?]
[With the seal already in place, it’s impossible. The Martial Alliance’s efforts are nothing but wasted labor.]
The darkness was so absolute that one could barely discern a human form.
[He was the weakest among the Blood Immortal Ten Thousand Soldiers anyway. We can simply select a new Yo Cheon-gun.]
Despite the loss of a comrade, mocking laughter echoed through the space.
[It would have been better if he’d focused on either martial arts or sorcery… but he was mediocre.]
[To think he retreated after being torn apart by mere four puppies.]
Low, cackling laughter scraped across the cavern floor.
The sound resembled the breathing of beasts rather than humans, and strangely, killing intent saturated the air even within their mockery.
[Everyone, be silent.]
With that single command, all the mocking laughter ceased at once.
[Ohhh… Leader.]
[Your Majesty!]
The one addressed as Leader continued speaking calmly amid the zealots’ fervent reverence.
[Hyeolseon has issued a divine revelation.]
[A revelation?]
[To make the seed of Banson into one of the Blood Immortal Ten Thousand Soldiers.]
The revelation had changed.
Originally, Hyeolseon had desired the seed of Banson as a sacrifice.
But now, to make him one of the Blood Immortal Ten Thousand Soldiers?
Using the bizarre knowledge obtained from Hyeolseon, even the greatest masters of the Gangho could be brainwashed through manipulation of the mind without much difficulty.
For them, one year or two years were not pressing matters.
They were those who had waited ten, twenty, even a hundred years.
No matter how iron-willed a person might be, with enough time and effort grinding away at them, eventually it would become possible.
The greatest problem was this.
Capturing him.
[For that, we must capture him with certainty.]
[The spiritual creatures beside him are all troublesome ones, making approach difficult…?]
[Of all things, a dog and a hawk. Creatures with keen noses and sharp eyes—ordinary plans won’t work.]
The Leader responded.
[However, Hyeolseon has not imposed any time limit. Therefore, our immediate objective is to vanish from sight. With all eyes in the Gangho currently upon us, we must remain completely hidden for at least three years. Three years—we must wait in obscurity and seize our opportunity.]
In a way, this was fortunate.
The name of the Hyeolseonggyo had already been far too exposed throughout the Gangho anyway.
Humans are creatures of easy forgetfulness, so three years would inevitably loosen the grip of the assassination orders upon us.
[So be it.]
[Let us do so.]
[We shall do as you command.]
The remaining Blood Immortal Ten Thousand Soldiers each voiced their agreement.
The Leader spoke.
[Glory to Hyeolseon!]
All responded in unison to those words.
[Glory to Hyeolseon!]
[Glory to Hyeolseon!]

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