Doctor’s Rebirth - Chapter 352

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Chapter 352
As Jin Cheon-hee stared intently, Namgung Un spoke urgently.
“Jin, listen. Didn’t I tell you not to eat greasy foods as drinking snacks? That’s why I’ve only been eating jerky as my snack since then! Isn’t that safe?”
“….”
Jin Cheon-hee recalled the amount of salt in jerky and simply rolled up one sleeve.
‘Should I just press his lower abdomen and recreate that pain for him?’
It was even more worrying since this was a character who had died once in the novel.
‘What am I supposed to do in a world without ambulances.’
At least if kidney stones recurred in a major city like this, I could visit Baekrin Uiseon.
But if the pain started from kidney stones while traveling to some mountain or remote village, wouldn’t I just have to let him die?
What if his lower abdomen took impact from combat?
Jin Cheon-hee regarded Namgung Un with cold eyes.
‘I’ll just recreate the pain for him. It’s not that difficult.’
Watching Jin Cheon-hee’s expression, Yeo Ha-ryun thought to himself.
‘I see. So hyeong’s anger comes from that realm.’
Yeo Ha-ryun quietly lowered the inner energy he had raised, nodding inwardly.
Heal and get injured again, heal and get injured again.
Turning this infinite wheel, the doctor grows angry.
Not merely the anger from the Yongbong incident, but the same fury applies to Namgung Un, who lives daily through alcohol despite being healed.
‘Hmm. I should remember this.’
Did Namgung Un sense something ominous when Jin Cheon-hee rolled up his sleeve?
Namgung Un turned pale and hid the wine bottle behind him.
But concealing it now was meaningless.
It only added to the anger.
“Ha… haha. Jin, you see… wine is the elegance of life for me….”
“It’s fine. Humans are creatures of forgetfulness. Since you’ve forgotten the pain of kidney stones, I can simply make you experience it again. I’ve recently become quite skilled at controlling my true energy, so I can recreate it exactly as it was.”
Jin Cheon-hee spoke madness in a calm, rational voice.
“Ha… I must decline….”
“…It’s fine. Think of this pain as bringing you thirty years of comfort. This time, I’ll make sure you never forget.”
“That… where does such a thing exist! What… what are you doing to me! And you call yourself a doctor!”
“Then you won’t visit our Medical Guild if stones form?”
“No… that’s not it.”
“Then relax and accept it willingly. I’ll teach you the pain of an awl scraping your lower abdomen.”
With that, Jin Cheon-hee lunged forward and Namgung Un dodged with desperate resolve.
It was a miracle that the food didn’t spill during all this.
Yeo Ha-ryun tried to help his hyeong by attempting to grab Namgung Un from the opposite side.
While they were making a commotion like that.
All three of them noticed someone rushing over urgently.
Crash—
“Young Master! Urgent news!”
“What’s the matter?”
Namgung Un hastily pulled the wine bottle back, and quickly composed himself as though nothing had happened moments before.
He looked down at Gasol with the most solemn expression he could muster.
Gasol spoke.
“Two of the elders are currently engaged in combat with Tugoe!”
“What?!”
Namgung Un rose to his feet.
I too felt my expression grow urgent.
‘This is faster than I expected.’
It was happening sooner than the timeline I had predicted based on the original work.
I wondered if this too might be a butterfly effect caused by the events I had set in motion.
I immediately rose to my feet.
* * *
While I, Yeo Ha-ryun, Namgung Cheong, Namgung Un, and the Namgung Family’s swordsmen were fighting.
A small wooden boat was gliding silently toward the direction of Muho Port.
The boat was long in length but narrow in width.
It could accommodate about four people if they crowded together, and one side of the boat had a cloth roof constructed to conceal the interior.
Such a boat moved with an eerie discretion, yet with remarkable speed.
The one rowing the boat wore a straw hat that obscured their face, but upon closer inspection, one could discern this was no ordinary vessel.
Of course it wasn’t.
The one rowing was Gong Ya-geon of Tugoe, in disguise.
When one used inner energy to row, the speed became incomparable to that of an ordinary boat.
Yet the rowing motion and its characteristic naturalness were identical to that of a common boatman.
Because of this natural appearance, even martial artists could not discern the boat’s speed unless they concentrated intently.
However, the problem lay in this region.
“Those Namgung Family bastards…”
Military vessels completely blockaded the Yangtze River from top to bottom.
It wasn’t merely a blockade.
Between the military vessels, iron nets were strung to prevent small wooden boats from slipping through.
At several points where nets were absent, soldiers stood on small patrol boats conducting inspections.
It was obvious to anyone that the Namgung Family had moved the government to create this situation.
‘Has the Namgung Family already discovered that the Poison of Severance was stolen? It shouldn’t be the Demonic Sect’s doing…”
No matter how powerful the Demonic Sect was, they couldn’t mobilize military vessels this quickly.
Then it was highly likely this was the power of the clan that dominated this region.
Though Gong Ya-geon couldn’t know that the Demonic Sect had orchestrated the Wheel of Karma Assassination Scheme, she at least suspected the power of the Namgung Family.
‘Thank goodness it’s not those Hyeolseon Sect bastards.’
Gong Ya-geon knew who had poisoned her granddaughter.
All of this ultimately stemmed from schemes by the Hyeolseon Sect.
They were surely watching her from the shadows. Yet despite this, they had not revealed themselves because.
She had made herself hunted by both the Demonic Sect and the Namgung Family.
No, after this, information about Tugoe possessing the Blood Poison Bead would spread to far more people.
And when she grew exhausted, the Hyeolseonggyo would emerge and leisurely claim the Blood Poison Bead she had stolen.
That would be the easiest way to obtain the Blood Poison Bead without going through the Demonic Sect’s approval.
Then what was to be done about the granddaughter?
Watching her granddaughter exhale ragged, troubled breaths while asleep, she clenched her teeth.
‘I will save this child, no matter what!’
She entered the tent and lifted her granddaughter into her arms.
She channeled her inner energy into her granddaughter’s body to sustain her life, while simultaneously wrapping her granddaughter against her upper torso with cloth.
Carrying her on her back would obstruct her vision, leaving the granddaughter vulnerable to attack, so this was unavoidable.
Having secured her granddaughter to her upper body with a swaddling cloth like that used for infants, she took a short, deep breath.
And she ran.
Whoosh!
Qi Surge Ascension.
Her body shot upward more than a dozen zhang in a single bound, soaring past the military line and reaching the sky itself.
There, she struck the empty air directly.
Void Step.
Treading upon the empty sky, she used that momentum to leap over the military line and plummet toward the river beyond.
“A person is flying through the sky!”
“It’s Tugoe! Tugoe has appeared!”
At that moment, soldiers spotted Tugoe and cried out.
With so many military vessels, so many soldiers, and the sun still high, there was no way to avoid detection.
But Tugoe had already reached the river.
She then ran across the water itself, charging toward a small boat carrying nearby soldiers.
Water Treading Step.
A legendary lightness technique of running across water.
In truth, in all of Gangho, only Tugoe could accomplish Qi Surge Ascension, Void Step, and Water Treading Step in succession.
‘I must secure any boat before my inner energy depletes!’
And her body descended upon one of the small wooden boats carrying soldiers like a hawk.
Her martial prowess was exceptional enough to rank among the ten greatest masters under heaven.
The soldiers were swiftly incapacitated by her footwork and tumbled overboard.
In that state, she seized the oar and urgently tried to channel her inner energy into it.
At that moment.
[Tugoe! We have waited for this day!]
[Where do you think you are fleeing to!]
With a rumbling sound, two elderly men rushed out from the military harbor like lightning.
Though they could not employ Water Treading Step like Tugoe, they threw wooden planks onto the river and stepped upon them, blocking her path.
“The Twin Dragon Swords. Still alive, are you? The Thousand-League Residence has improved considerably.”
Twin Dragon Swords.
Cousin brothers of the Namgung Family’s patriarch.
They were twins, and they had become famous not merely for their identical appearances.
Both of these masters, despite having reached the Hwagyeong realm, were renowned for employing combined strikes.
Dorang, the Sword King of the Sea Bandits, counted among the ten greatest masters under heaven and known as the second-strongest in the heterodox sects after Sulgye, had earned his reputation by being defeated when he crossed blades with these Twin Dragon Swords.
Those who entered the ranks of the ten greatest masters were, even at the Hwagyeong realm, distinctly stronger than others.
That one of them, Dorang, had been defeated by these two meant their combined strike surpassed even the ten greatest masters.
“Did you think I would forget being mocked by you?”
“I have trained the Thousand-Li Courtyard Step ceaselessly to capture you!”
Thousand-Li Courtyard Step.
One of the divine techniques and supreme martial arts of the Namgung Family’s footwork methods.
A martial art that grants the meaning of being able to walk a thousand li of distance as though it were the courtyard before one’s own home.
It is said that if mastered properly, one can leap over a hundred zhang—roughly three hundred meters—in a single step.
“How amusing. Have you forgotten that it was you who provoked me twenty years ago?”
“Hmph! And yet you dared invade the main family’s ancestral shrine and desecrate the memorial tablets!”
“That crime demands your life!”
“Stop spouting nonsense and step aside. My granddaughter’s life hangs by a thread, and if she comes to harm because of you… I will slaughter every last blood relative of the Namgung Family.”
I mean it.
No matter how much I speak of following the Way as a thief, that is merely Tugoe’s personal aesthetic.
It does not take precedence over my granddaughter’s life.
To me, she is everything.
Goooooo—
Killing intent spreads forth. Yet the twin elderly men did not yield an inch.
“Let us see you try.”
“Since we are irreconcilable enemies anyway, why not settle this here and now!”
Tssssss.
A mist-like energy emanated from the bodies of the twin elderly men.
Sword Cloud—an advanced technique of the sword master realm!
This was the same as the Sword Qi Convergence that Jin Cheon-hee had once witnessed at the Dragon Phoenix Assembly martial tournament.
“Tch. You… how can the righteous path be so shameless!”
“You made us this way.”
“If you surrender peacefully, I will spare your granddaughter’s life.”
“Shut your mouth!”
Boom!
The ship Tugoe stood upon exploded.
The fragments scattering with it carried fierce energy, their force resembling that of a shotgun blast.

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