Doctor’s Rebirth - Chapter 331

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Chapter 331
My Master nodded, then spoke again.
[Then I shall refrain from intervening and simply observe.]
As expected of our Master—he seems to find this troublesome.
Jin Cheon-hee spoke carefully.
[Still, if it appears someone will die, please step in. By my calculations, ten people should be sufficient.]
[So that’s why you wanted me to observe? Because you’ve already gathered enough strength to suppress the Asura Blood River Monster. But Hope, I understand you wish to save people—but must you always do so?]
In that moment.
“I’m curious whether you would save him even if he were a villain.”
This time, Master spoke aloud rather than through transmission.
That must mean he had something important he wanted to convey.
Jin Cheon-hee fell silent for a moment.
“Hehehehe. Think on it carefully. This Master would say—I save those who bring benefit, and leave the rest.”
“That is…”
“Ah. I know such words don’t align with your values. However, is a Doctor not a person? You need to protect yourself more.”
While the master and disciple conversed thus.
Like a cat, Sama Hyeon approached without a sound.
Of course, though he came silently, Jin Cheon-hee and Jegalling were not unaware.
“Come now, come now. Brother, you’re too rigid~. You can think more flexibly, you know.”
Sama Hyeon interjected, having realized the master and disciple were discussing Jin Cheon-hee.
Jin Cheon-hee sighed and furrowed his brow in response.
“Don’t you ever think about why you survived?”
“No way. I was such a good child back then, never doing anything wrong~? So you risked your life for me, didn’t you?”
The implication was clear—you saved me because I was a good child, didn’t you? If that weren’t the case, would you have risked your life for me?
‘He’s completely mistaken about this, isn’t he?’
A villain who, when bored, would flay the skin from people’s faces.
Who would set temples ablaze.
Who clashed with the Cheonma and lived recklessly.
Rather than saving him because he was good, it would be more accurate to say I saved him hoping he would become good.
Jin Cheon-hee sighed and did not answer.
“I see. So our Hope risked his very life to save that fellow. I hadn’t heard such details before.”
Master already knew most of it but was deliberately pretending not to.
“Since Brother risked his life for me, how could I not repay such kindness~? The debt of life-saving grace must be repaid with life—that is how one fulfills one’s duty as a martial artist of Gangho.”
“Hoo… how admirable.”
His mouth smiled, but his eyes did not.
At that sight, Jin Cheon-hee wanted to clutch his head and curl up like a bear.
Then it was.
In the distance, toward the stone coffin, Cheong-yeon Soegooju and Akjin, the Martial Arts Alliance Leader.
And there, Sulche, the Demonic Sect Leader, walked forward.
“Only very simple sorcery is placed upon it… There’s a formation array as well, but it appears to be merely for maintaining this sorcery.”
“What kind of sorcery is this?”
“Preservation magic. It’s typically used for storing food, but….”
Watching from a distance, I pondered this.
‘Such sorcery exists? It would be perfect for storing medicinal materials like penicillin….’
While I maintained preservation through formation arrays, I wanted to experiment with every possible method if alternatives existed.
Quietly deciding I should explore the world of sorcery as well, I observed the conversation between the three masters.
“Preservation magic. I understand it to be a simple yet difficult sorcery to employ….”
Cheong-yeon Soegooju spoke up.
Thanks to her words, I realized this wasn’t an easy technique.
Though I had learned considerable knowledge by the time one reached the rank of Soggakju, I’d never heard of preservation magic before.
The same applied to Saeoe-in Wannong.
Such sorcery wasn’t taught in that region either.
Ak-jin, the Martial Arts Alliance Leader, spoke.
“I’ve never even heard such a technique existed….”
‘What? Even the Martial Arts Alliance Leader doesn’t know this sorcery?’
I listened intently to the conversation.
“Tsk tsk tsk, how many sorceries do you even know in the first place? These young people nowadays are so ignorant they’re obsessed with martial arts and won’t even listen to sorcery… Back in my day….”
Speaking thus, Sulgye began rambling about his glorious past.
However, regardless of how things were, Sulgye’s appearance after his reversal of life and death was no different from that of a young man.
It resembled a third-rate sitcom.
‘Grandfather Sulgye… should I ask him to teach me preservation magic later….’
It was while I was thinking this and concentrating.
“Hope. You’re not thinking of going to Sulgye and making some kind of deal to learn preservation magic, are you?”
*Thump*
Master’s mind-reading technique. It was no wonder I had the same thought.
“Brother~ even though Grandfather Sulgye seems reckless like that, he’s a cunning old fox of Gangho. And you don’t seem to fully realize how valuable you are….”
“Well, just listen to me first. If we had that, it would make storing medicinal materials easier… and transportation too….”
Formation arrays relied on earth veins, so they couldn’t be used except in specific terrains, and they had clear limitations.
What if sorcery was more convenient than that? Wouldn’t it help with my research?
Watching me persuade step by step while explaining the utility of sorcery, Jegalling simply smiled broadly.
“That’s something our Medical Guild can figure out and install on its own. So don’t worry about it.”
Watching Jegalling speak as if saying ‘we’ll just buy a large commercial refrigerator for our house,’ I began to worry about Grandfather Sulgye instead.
Meanwhile, it seemed the discussion among the three masters had concluded to some extent.
“Then shall we open it….”
Sulgye lifted his staff and struck the top of the stone coffin.
Then, with a rumbling sound, intense energy surged forth from the stone coffin.
‘It’s beginning.’
The novel about Jicheon Cheonma that I had read.
According to the novel’s description, this stone coffin was designed to release the Asura Blood River Monster no matter what.
In the era when Gwangmujeon was the greatest under heaven, he believed that to inherit his martial arts, one must stand at the pinnacle of the demonic path.
Overwhelming everything with sheer force and crushing it down!
In some ways it resembled the Demonic Way of the Cheonma, yet it possessed a distinctly different character.
Because of this.
Anyone seeking the secret technique had to defeat the Asura Blood River Monster sealed within the stone coffin.
And now, Gwangmujeon’s arrangement activated.
Crash!
The stone coffin erupted in a massive explosion. From within, a corpse wrapped in powerful protective energy burst forth, hovering in mid-air as it surveyed the assembly.
[Ho… is that what they call an Asura Blood River Monster? On par with Hyeongyeong?]
[Yes. But it’s only half a Hyeongyeong. It lacks the intellect. It only attacks while ignoring defense entirely.]
In the meantime, master and disciple conversed through sound transmission.
“Brother, the way you were reading the situation… you already knew what was going to burst out from there, didn’t you~?”
“Ahahaha…”
“Hmm… let’s talk about this later~”
Ignoring Sama Hyeon’s sharp gaze, I focused on the battle.
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‘That cunning bastard already knew! That guy… well. Since he’s cute-looking and exceptionally talented, I’ll overlook making him a joint disciple.’
Sulgye.
He was eavesdropping on Jin Cheon-hee’s words through a special incantation.
While he couldn’t quite catch the sound transmission, through Sama Hyeon’s words, he’d picked up on it like the seasoned warrior he was.
Then, employing absurd logic in his mind, he concentrated all his attention on the enemy before him.
‘No matter how I look at it… it seems to be an Asura Blood River Monster, doesn’t it?’
Sulgye, as a grand master of incantations, possessed deep knowledge of corpse sorcery as well.
Though not matching the secret corpse techniques of families like Jin Ju-eonga who specialized in corpses.
He possessed enough knowledge to recognize one of the legendary corpses—the Asura Blood River Monster.
A corpse possessing the martial prowess of Hyeongyeong.
That was precisely the corpse before his eyes.
Simultaneously, Sulgye recalled something.
One of the Three Elites he’d met in the past—an existence preparing for transcendence at the realm of Hyeongyeong.
The Sage!
Observing the corpse while recalling that encounter with the Sage.
‘The Sage… this one is certainly inferior to him. Then again, a mere corpse couldn’t possibly manifest the true realm of Hyeongyeong.’
The corpse hovered approximately one foot above the ground.
Defying gravity and levitating, its entire body was wrapped in crimson energy that rippled and undulated.
The floor where that energy passed cracked and crumbled.
True Protective Body Energy.
Usually when people speak of protective body energy, they think of it as defending the physical body.
But true protective body energy is different.
It is an absolute invincible martial technique combining offense and defense as one.
The energy wraps around the entire body, and this energy annihilates everything it touches, reducing all to mere ash.
The drawback is that it consumes internal energy rapidly—theoretically, even someone with internal energy reaching five decades would exhaust it all after maintaining it for merely a moment.
But would a monster corpse with Hyeongyeong-level martial prowess truly exhaust the Jinhosin Gangki in such a short span of time?
‘At the Hyeongyeong level, the Heaven-Earth Circulation is achieved, and internal energy consumption becomes so minimal that one can use internal energy almost infinitely, or so I’ve heard….’
This was something Sulgye had heard when he once met an Immortal in the past.
Then that monster corpse likely possessed the same capability.
If it continued rampaging for more than an hour while cloaked in Jinhosin Gangki, everyone here except those who had reached Hwagyeong could be completely annihilated.
Having swiftly calculated matters to that extent, Sulgye spat out another curse.
“Damn it! If we don’t stop this, all the kids will die! Everyone who can create Gangki, come out now!”
The only thing capable of countering Jinhosin Gangki was Gangki itself.
Sulgye roared out, having grasped that without an absolute master of Hwagyeong capable of wielding Gangki, one couldn’t even face it.
Then the sect leaders and highest executives of each faction emerged.
From the Martial Arts Alliance came Akjin, the Martial Arts Alliance Leader.
Eon-gwon, the Jin Ju-eonga Family Head.
Even Jang Mun-in of the Cheongseong Faction and Jang Mun-in of the Gonggong Faction.
The Sacheondan Family Head and Gwon Je of the Wudang Faction had remained outside the tomb, ostensibly to prepare for any unforeseen circumstances.
In Gwon Je’s case, while the Wudang Faction itself had withdrawn from this matter, he remained under the pretext of aiding the Martial Arts Alliance alone.
Thus the Martial Arts Alliance fielded no fewer than four absolute masters of Hwagyeong.
From the Demonic Sect came Sulgye and the Hwanghasurochae Chongchaeju, along with the Golden Blood Sect Leader from the Hao-mun faction—three in total.
Since the Demonic Cult’s Heukun Soegooju was waiting outside, Cheong-yeon Soegooju and two demonic cultivators dispatched from the Majong Six Families—Jansalcheolma and Hyeolgwiseonma—stepped forward to maintain balance.
Thus, ten absolute masters of Hwagyeong in total!
And they collided.

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