Doctor’s Rebirth - Chapter 438

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Chapter 438
Ju Wang Pungju-ha.
The supernatural ability granted by the imperial bloodline that earned him the epithet “God of War”—this was it.
The power to control heat!
Heat Control Force.
He gathered all the surrounding heat into a single point and confined it. The result was what stood before them now.
The surroundings plummeted to absolute zero, freezing everything solid, while at that single point where the heat converged, a miniature sun was born.
And that sun fell like a meteor into the distance.
Krrraaaash!
A catastrophic explosion erupted, and hundreds of mounted cavalry units simply ‘evaporated’ in an instant.
A power that shattered strategy through tactics.
This was the true strength of the God of War, Pungju-ha.
“The Ju Wang fights alongside us!”
“Slaughter the barbarians!”
“Uwaaaaaa!”
In an instant, the morale of the Imperial forces soared to the heavens.
Ju Wang advanced through the breached gaps in the formation, his hands moving ceaselessly.
‘Tch, some of our own got caught in it too.’
Ju Wang’s power was much like the arrow rain the Suksin Tribe unleashed.
While he could designate an area to strike, it was impossible to control his power precisely enough to spare individual lives.
Still, it was fortunate that the enemy had eagerly gathered together.
As evidence of this.
The fierce and mighty Suksin warriors dared not approach, paralyzed by fear before such miraculous power.
Normally, a blow of this magnitude would force the Suksin to retreat.
But this time was different.
“Krhehehe, it’s been a long time, Pungju-ha.”
Kahuray Khan.
The man who had elevated the Suksin Tribe’s power to such heights.
One of the heroes who shook an entire era.
He stepped forward.
“You… have changed.”
Pungju-ha knew him.
They had clashed once on the battlefield ten years prior.
But back then, he had been decrepit, fleeing desperately from Pungju-ha’s grasp.
That same man who had cowered like a mouse, hiding his form, now revealed himself.
And in a rejuvenated state at that.
The withered, aged appearance of the past was gone, replaced by a body brimming with vital energy.
His height alone reached a full ten feet!
A giant more akin to a bear than a man stood towering before her.
“Krahaha! It is thanks to Hyeolseon’s blessing. Through it, I have reclaimed my youth.”
“Nenomm…! Did you join hands with the Heretical Sect?!”
Pungju-ha’s voice rang out, making no effort to conceal her fury.
Her rage-laden words shook the very earth beneath us.
The Heretical Sect.
The Empire had long since become aware of the Hyeolseonggyo, which had attacked the Martial Arts Alliance in the past.
Since the emergence of heretical sects was a matter the state had to prevent, the Hyeolseonggyo had already been designated as such and warrants issued for their capture.
And now the Suksin Tribe had joined hands with that very Hyeolseonggyo!
“Kuhuhuh. Where does the heretical exist and where does the orthodox exist in this world? You Empire dogs grow fat like pigs from such rigid thinking, only to be devoured in the end. Now then. What say you? I shall make you that proposal again.”
“A proposal? You made a proposal to me?”
“I did. Since you seem to have forgotten, I shall speak again. Become my wife, Pungju-ha. And if you offer tribute, we shall leave the Empire alone and go feast upon the Cult instead. What say you? A fine proposal, is it not?”
“You speak nonsense, old and ugly wretch.”
Pungju-ha extended her hand to the side.
In that instant, a crescent blade came flying from nowhere and was caught in her grasp.
The technique of summoning objects from empty air!
“Since you bark like a dog, I had no choice but to forget. Come then. This time, I shall finally claim the neck I missed ten years ago.”
“Krahaha! Yes! Good! Let us see if you can still speak such words after tasting defeat at my hands!”
A tremendous force erupted from the giant’s body.
Had any warrior of Gangho witnessed it, they would have called it an unparalleled defensive martial force!
The giant charged forward, wrapped in that power.
The supreme and mightiest warriors of both armies collided.
Kwaaaaaaaaang–!
* * *
Far away.
On a distant mountaintop, more than a hundred leagues away.
There lay a pale-skinned man, smiling as he reclined.
Above his head, thirteen talismans fluttered and danced in circles.
He had covered one eye, one ear, and his entire mouth with talismans, and soon they burned away of their own accord.
Crackle–
He swept away the charred talismans that had covered his face.
Strangely, though they had burned with considerable brightness, his face bore not a single mark of injury.
“That there exists no law by which all may find happiness… The seed of half-immortality, that child cannot understand this. Yet it is the way of heaven. Krkrkr… Is this not the most amusing part? We, who despise the way of heaven and fate above all else, yet move like puppets in the end…”
Won Cheon-gun.
He employed sorcery to observe many places simultaneously.
The wounded soldier he had been controlling before Jin Cheon-hee.
Even the single bird watching over the battlefield.
Through diverse mediums, he simultaneously observed and manipulated many locations.
Won Cheon-gun.
“Hmm… Perhaps that child’s actions are truly what we desire… No, no, that cannot be. Such a thing is impossible. The way of heaven being reversed so that Gangho becomes peaceful and all find happiness… I cannot allow it. All must witness hell, must they not? Krkrkrkrk!”
The Sega’s grudge against Oh Dok-mun.
That is, Jin Cheon-hee had inadvertently released the grudge of Yo Cheon-gun.
Ever since then, Won Cheon-gun’s thoughts had grown heavy.
Yet, the sight of everyone living happily still made him nauseous.
The seed of Banson had spoken.
That Hyeolseonggyo had killed far too many to ever become allies.
Conversely, the world had killed far too many things for Won Cheon-gun.
He yearned for this world to end.
More than half of the Sip Cheon-gun surely harbored the same desire.
Won Cheon-gun grinned wickedly, his expression turning vicious.
“Listen well.”
“Yes, Won Cheon-gun.”
“Begin preparations. It’s time we dealt a blow to those arrogant ones who carry Boggi’s blood.”
“Your command shall be obeyed.”
Beneath the peak where Won Cheon-gun stood, a horrific altar had been constructed.
That altar, built from stacked corpses, was so grotesque that it naturally induced retching in all who beheld it.
“I wonder what will become of the Empire when the War God Pungju-ha falls?”
Won Cheon-gun laughed with evident delight.
And beneath his feet, a viscous and malevolent aura began to spread from the altar.
An aura so thick with madness that it could drive sane people to insanity.
The fanatical followers of Hyeolseonggyo became intoxicated by this madness, stabbing one another while cackling.
He withdrew a bell from his robes.
Shaking it unsteadily as though drunk, he formed hand seals and began chanting the incantations of sorcery in a loud voice.
“Come forth. I beseech you. Yellow Emperor Gongseon Heon-won, the left seat of the Five Emperors who cast down the age of the Three Sovereigns and became the supreme ruler. Come to this place! I, Won Cheon-gun, disciple of Hyeolseon, call upon you!”
As the altar’s aura grew increasingly potent, he cried out loudly.
“Curse your enemy! Curse those of Boggi’s bloodline!”
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Could this truly be called a battle of the mortal realm?
What Pungju-ha displayed was nothing short of mythological. The world itself was being destroyed as if gods of fire and ice had descended.
Across the wilderness, she unveiled martial prowess of mythic proportions.
It was truly a spectacle magnificent enough to make mortals forget all thought.
Kahuray Khan, standing against her, likewise displayed martial techniques that made him appear not as an ordinary man, but as a divine being.
The protective qi wreathing his body repelled heat and cold alike, and his massive frame charged forward in direct assault against Pungju-ha.
CRASH—!
All who witnessed this transcendent spectacle stood transfixed, their minds reeling.
The war had ceased, and across the wilderness only the blood duel of two superhuman beings continued.
Yet.
Though outsiders could not perceive it, between these two, the tide of victory had already begun to turn.
‘Ugh… this monster….’
My internal organs were already shattered, and I forcibly swallowed the blood rising to my throat.
Kahuray Khan gazed in inner shock at the small—from his perspective—woman before him.
Had he not been born with a strong frame and massive body, he would have been torn to shreds and died long ago.
He had reached the pinnacle of beast-taming arts and confidently believed himself to have ascended to the legendary realm of the Beast King.
Thinking only old age was his enemy, he had entered this battle believing that with youth now in his grasp, he could overwhelm Pungju-ha—yet it was he who found himself being pushed back.
‘This… me! Losing to the likes of you! It cannot be!’
Kahuray Khan gritted his teeth and pressed forward.
Terrible scorching heat and brutal freezing cold engulfed him.
But that was not all.
A terrifying martial technique that had nearly reached the pinnacle of Hwagyeong also assailed him simultaneously.
In one hand, he gripped a fist brimming with devastating heat, while in the other, he wielded a crescent blade from which flowed a cold so intense it froze living flesh.
When the fist came like lightning and struck, an explosion erupted as if the heavens and earth were being torn asunder, and when the crescent blade flew like wind and came crashing down, a heavy, crushing impact descended as if thousands of pounds were pressing down, freezing everything in its path.
Kahuray Khan’s protective qi, like a guardian’s aura, prevented their intrusion, yet it could not stop the accumulated damage building within his body.
Explosions and weight.
That powerful, destructive force!
Overwhelming!
After all this fighting, he should have been exhausted, yet the War God showed no signs of fatigue?
Despite his body being covered in wounds both large and small, Ju Wang stood before Kahuray Khan like a towering mountain, unyielding.
She spoke.
“Just fall already, you bear-like bastard!”
“Why don’t you become my wife instead!”
“Ha, you old, ugly wretch… how unfair… I wouldn’t even take you as a concubine as a joke.”
They continued exchanging offense and defense against one another.
Then, in a moment.
Pungju-ha’s body suddenly froze.
A blood-red aura pierced through Ju Wang’s body.
The instant her expression showed bewilderment, Kahuray Khan’s eyes, possessing a beast’s keen senses, turned fierce.
An opening!
“Roaaah!”
The massive crescent blade descended like a tiger’s claw.
She moved to block it too late with her crescent blade, but it was already too slow.
Crack!
The crescent blade struck vertically into Pungju-ha’s shoulder blade.
Her armor too was the kind called divine armor in the Gangho, possessing defensive power strong enough to withstand qi-infused strikes simply by channeling energy into it.
However.
With his massive frame and overwhelming strength, it was impossible to completely block the impact, so while the armor remained intact, the shoulder bone beneath it could not escape being fractured severely.
“Ugh!”
“Hahaha! You let your guard down. Pungju-ha! Become my wife willingly!”
“As if I would fall to the likes of you–!”
Pungju-ha gritted her teeth and, rather than her left arm whose shoulder bone had just fractured, thrust out her right hand like a flash of lightning.
As imperial royalty able to learn martial techniques from various sects without restriction, she unleashed the Lightning Divine Technique of Hwangbo Sega, one of the divine techniques she had mastered.
The lightning of the Lightning Divine Technique combined with formidable heat and the supernatural ability to control mass, releasing a strike carrying the weight of ten thousand pounds.
Boom!
But.
Kahuray Khan endured it.
Blood trickled from his lips, yet he held firm as his crescent blade swept horizontally once more.
“Gahhh!”
With a sickening thud, the crescent blade buried itself into Pungju-ha’s side.
Her eyes widened in shock before she lost consciousness entirely.

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