Doctor’s Rebirth - Chapter 456

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Chapter 456
“Let’s give it a try.”
“Then die!”
A strike capable of cleaving heaven and earth in half descended upon me.
The moment Jin Cheon-hee witnessed it, I understood that it contained a Mysterious Group of martial principles.
This was no mere blow. A strike that seemed to sever time and space itself. The strength of a great tribal chieftain who had spent decades grinding away his life through warfare was woven into it.
But.
I would not retreat.
I activated the Cheonma Divine Art.
As the Heart Demon materialized and I faced it directly, the martial principles of the Cheonma Divine Art had definitively merged with my own being, making this possible.
Combined with the Pactaeon Unparalleled Divine Art, it moved the Five Elements Divine Art. Three divine arts and supreme techniques operated simultaneously.
Within a phenomenon incomprehensible by Gangho’s common sense, my body underwent a massive explosion of power.
The sword force flowing through the Bing Jeong Sword distorted and trembled ominously.
It was because so much power was concentrated that it could not maintain its form.
Tai Chi Wisdom Sword—Tai Chi Void Reversal.
The Crescent Blade and the Tai Chi Void Reversal techniques collided.
And simultaneously, the Crescent Blade’s power, which possessed the force to split mountains, flowed along the sinister energy I had created and scattered in all directions.
Crash!
The direction of force changed.
The tremendous power erupted forward, backward, left, and right along with the energy, and the force applied to me vanished without a trace.
However, I could not block the explosive force itself, so my entire body ached as though beaten, but thanks to my external techniques and protective energy, I suffered only moderate injuries with slight damage to my skin and flesh.
And the horse that Kahuray Khan rode was pushed back slightly by the explosion.
“What manner of bizarre technique is this…?”
“Wudang Sect supreme technique. Tai Chi Wisdom Sword, Tai Chi Void Reversal. You may not know of it.”
“A formidable method indeed. Yet you are wounded while I am not.”
“Still, I can buy time.”
“Hmph. Since you possess considerable strength, taking your head here would not be a loss for me!”
Geomal charged forward.
This time the Crescent Blade was swung three times in rapid succession.
But this time, attacks coming from entirely different directions blocked it.
A brilliant golden energy force and an energy force of black and white.
Boom!
“You wretches. Have you come to interfere again!”
“Brother! You’re safe!”
“We meet again~ our beggar-like great chieftain customer?”
Sama Hyeon. Cheonwoo.
The two descended beside me.
This ruined battlefield had now become the eye of a typhoon that we faced together.
My two younger brothers were not unaware of this eye of the storm.
I saw the large and small scars etched upon my brothers’ bodies.
I wanted to fix it.
Several complications came to mind, but I suppressed them.
It wasn’t easy.
However, wasn’t setting aside my role as a Doctor a command from my Master?
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‘Abnormally strong. He’s grown even more powerful than before.’
I recalled the fragments of information I’d gathered from facing Kahuray Khan until now.
He was clearly growing stronger as time passed.
I couldn’t discern the principle behind it.
However, he was one who had consumed Hyeolsaeng, a tool of the Hyeolseonggyo.
It wouldn’t be strange if the Hyeolseonggyo had infused him with additional power.
From the start, his massive frame alone granted him monstrous strength and stamina that made even first-rate Warriors look pathetic.
And since he seemed to have mastered something called demonic spirit technique to its limits, he possessed strength a tier above ordinary Hwagyeong Masters.
But now he was transcending even that.
Crack. Crunch.
Look at it—the ground around Kahuray Khan was crumbling into fine fragments, and waves of excessively powerful protective energy, the kind I’d seen from the Asura Blood River Monster before, undulated around his body.
‘The Hyeolseonggyo has definitely bestowed some dark sorcery. Probably… the more blood and corpses surround him, the more his energy is replenished and the stronger he becomes.’
Typically, religions grant power to those who hold faith.
Even the Demonic Cult operates on faith in Cheonma, the living god, and through the Cheonma Divine Art she grants, the Soegooju and demon leaders gain their strength.
So the Cheonma Divine Art served both as a tool to select the next Leader and as a means to drive talented individuals to risk their lives to grow stronger.
And that was a form of Demonic Cult faith.
But the Hyeolseonggyo has nothing like that.
Even those without faith or loyalty in Hyeolseon receive blessings simply by providing a place for slaughter and ritual.
‘Truly hostile to humanity.’
The fact that they don’t accept animal corpses suggests it’s a religion optimized for reducing the human population.
Whether that can even be called a religion, I’m not sure.
But even cults are religions, I suppose.
[Hyeong, do you have a plan?]
Cheonwoo stepped forward and sent a transmission.
As his massive frame moved, it created the illusion of a wall advancing.
[Still refining it, but I’m putting something together regardless.]
His blue eyes gleamed like water pooled in a snowy field.
The Icebound Blade remained cool.
Snow fell wherever the blade’s path traced.
This was the phenomenon of the Divine Soldier Technique’s power—accepting energy and expelling it after transforming it into extreme true energy.
[Hyeon-a, how’s the condition of the Heavenly Silkworm Gloves?]
[The battle was so trivial they don’t even have a scratch~]
[Haha, I really did make them well.]
I praised my own work. Then I conceived dozens of plans and hundreds of execution methods, weighed them, discarded them, and made my decision.
Taiji Wisdom Blade.
The Golden Water Technique and the Heavenly Change Sword Technique.
Along with the martial arts I possessed myself.
How much damage had Prince Ju-wang accumulated? That was my only chance of victory now.
[Cheonwoo, you and I attack from both sides frontally. Hyeon, you stay behind us and strike from the flank. Target the horse first!]
[Hyeong~ that’s not really a strategy~]
[Got it, Hyeong.]
[Let’s go!]
I fold the earth like lightning using Cheongi Miribu.
Cheonwoo likewise tore through space with Jeyunjong, a lightness technique that moved like drifting clouds.
Boom!
Two figures approached with a sinister momentum. However, Kahuray Khan drove his horse forward with blazing eyes.
Whoosh! Whoosh whoosh!
The air tore apart as a crescent blade flashed like lightning.
Its target was me!
To knock Kahuray Khan off his mount, I lunged at the horse, but the blade came diagonally to split my head open.
I blocked and deflected it.
I wrapped my inner energy around my arms covered in the Treasure Garment and ordinary clothing.
The martial arts of the Iron Dragon Scales combined with my originally trained external techniques, reinforced by protective qi—in that instant, overwhelming power surged through me.
The crescent blade and my arm collided.
‘Too… strong!’
In an instant, my feet were driven into the ground.
Crack crack crack—
The mucous membrane of my nose burst, blood spraying out, and I coughed up blood from my mouth.
Normally I should have used Tai Chi principles to redirect the force, but I couldn’t fully dissipate it—the power embedded itself in my body instead.
Dull pain erupted through my eight extraordinary meridians, my entire body’s muscles screamed, and my bones creaked.
Even with Blade Immunity, protective qi, Iron Dragon Scales, and the Treasure Garment layered on, I still took such an impact.
If it were Tugoe, I would have been split apart in a single strike!
Of course, if it were Tugoe, he wouldn’t have even taken the hit in the first place!
‘Kugh! Here… Phaethon Unbound Divine Art!’
Rather than the Five Elements Divine Art with its stable, flowing method of wielding great power, I shifted my qi circulation to the Phaethon Unbound Divine Art’s approach.
Though my qi was still Five Elements qi, merely changing the method of qi circulation created a different effect.
My muscles swelled, and my previously lean body instantly transformed into that of a thick, bodybuilder-level muscular physique.
I pushed the crescent blade back with raw force and opened my mouth.
“Haaah!”
Chilmakeum’s Lament Sound Single Point.
The terrifying sound didn’t leak out to the surroundings at all.
It traveled directly to Kahuray Khan’s ears and exploded there.
Transcending thousand-li transmission of sound, the Chilmakeum’s ultimate technique struck with qi-infused sound!
At this incredible divine art technique, Kahuray Khan’s ears burst with a sound, spraying blood as he staggered.
His eardrums had ruptured!
No matter how well protected by defensive energy, if one cannot hear, it disrupts combat effectiveness.
I exploited that opening.
“Gahhh!”
In that moment of staggering, Cheonwoo thrust his blade toward Geomal.
‘I can’t hesitate. Like the Tai Chi, keep my mind serene. I’ll accomplish what my brother commanded.’
The blade, sheathed in sword energy, advanced savagely toward the horse with eyes wide open.
Yet, shockingly, Geomal opened its teeth and bit the blade clean through.
Crunch-crunch-crunch-crunch-crunch-crack!
A grotesque sound erupted. The energy collided with Geomal’s teeth, and energy waves scattered in small explosions.
Insane—the horse’s teeth could withstand energy!
“Don’t lose focus~”
A languid voice echoed from the sky.
Simultaneously, a golden palm struck the horse’s head directly.
Boom!
The horse’s head snapped violently.
It spat out the blade it had bitten, and blood streamed from the horse’s eyes, yet Geomal still lived.
“What kind of damned horse skull can withstand energy~?”
“These irritating little flies!”
“Dodge!”
The crescent blade approached like the shadow of death itself.
Its speed was terrifyingly fast.
Sama Hyeon and Cheonwoo couldn’t evade and instead unleashed their absolute techniques toward Kahuray Khan.
Golden Hand—Golden Palm!
Weighty golden-gleaming palm-shaped energy poured forth.
Beside it, the sword energy created by Cheonwoo’s Tai Chi Sword shot out.
Colliding with the crescent blade, a massive explosion erupted.
Boom-rumble!
The destructive force was enough to shatter ordinary bones with merely a glancing touch!
Both Cheonwoo and Sama Hyeon were engulfed by the explosion and hurled backward.
Their clothes were tattered, and their entire bodies were drenched in blood—a sight too gruesome to bear.
Yet they could still fight.
Both stood covered in blood.
“Is this bastard even Hyeongyeong~? Why is he so strong!?”
Sama Hyeon’s expression grew weary. Yet contrary to that expression, the killing intent in his eyes deepened steadily.
Kahuray Khan, looking down at them both, was not unscathed either.
Blood flowed from his ears, and his entire body was covered in wounds.
Withstanding energy did not mean being without wounds.
Blood streamed along those wounds, and he had become a figure of blood itself.
Yet.
His eyes remained sinister, and his power showed no sign of waning.
“Troublesome fools. Then….”
Kahuray Khan muttered alone in the Suksin Tribe dialect.
Naturally, the other three had no idea what he was muttering about.
Only I could understand a little. Even then, his pronunciation was too rapid for me to grasp the meaning.
And his Geomal began to gallop fiercely.
Ignoring the three of us, as he charged toward the center of the melee, I clung to him like a shadow.
“You cannot go!”
Taeguk Wisdom Sword—Reverse Extreme Sword Severance.
A supreme technique that inverts the Taeguk into reverse extreme, severing anything in its path.
It was not merely pouring forth sword force. Through the Mysterious Group, it was the supreme technique of cutting the uncut, and this itself could be called the ultimate blade art.
That was when.

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