Doctor’s Rebirth - Chapter 52

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Chapter 52
I worried that Cheonwoo’s disfigured face might cause him to be ostracized by his peers.
Cheonwoo answered to my concern.
“I’m fine, so please don’t worry, brother. You saved my life and changed my entire future. No matter what happens, I’ll be able to live well.”
Hearing those words made my face feel warm.
I laughed awkwardly and scratched my cheek.
Cheonwoo’s expression turned serious.
“If it’s alright, could I treat you as my true older brother?”
“Huh? You want to become sworn brothers?”
“…Yes.”
Cheonwoo nodded solemnly.
I nearly laughed at how seriously the young child took this, but I held it back.
Since Cheonwoo had entered the Mudang Sect, he would become an excellent martial artist, and I knew how weighty sworn brotherhood was to martial artists.
I spoke.
“I have another sworn brother, and if he agrees, I’ll accept you.”
Yeo Ha-ryun, the Heavenly Demon.
I had already formed a sworn brotherhood with him. I couldn’t decide this matter on my own.
“You have another one? Did he also receive a favor from Gumyeong Jieun?”
Cheonwoo asked in surprise.
“I’m a doctor.”
“Ah…”
He seemed displeased.
It made sense—he had to get permission from a complete stranger who would be joining us.
‘Hmm, I didn’t know sworn brotherhood would have a waiting list.’
I fell into thought at this unexpected situation.
‘Can I just decide on my own? That wouldn’t be right, would it? I’ve never seen martial arts novels where they recruit additional sworn brothers with a time gap like this, so I’m not sure.’
I spoke to the disappointed Cheonwoo.
“Since I’m the older brother, Ha-ryun will agree if I explain the situation well. Don’t worry too much.”
Cheonwoo nodded at my words.
“Yes! Even if he doesn’t agree, Jin Cheon-hee is my brother in my heart, so it’s fine.”
This boy also seemed to take the debt to Gumyeong Jieun seriously.
The Heavenly Demon has the opposite personality, yet in this aspect they’re similar…
‘Or not. Come to think of it, this one’s life was truly turned around from rock bottom…”
The more subordinates, the better.
I ruffled Cheonwoo’s hair affectionately.
“Do well out there.”
“Brother, but I have a request.”
“What is it?”
“I don’t have a family name. Can I say my name is Jin too? Since you gave me my name.”
At those words, I nodded without much thought.
“Right. I didn’t inherit my surname from my parents either. As a Jin with no roots, it doesn’t matter.”
If I had to trace my lineage, I was a Jin from the Orphanage.
I had no attachment to the name itself.
Cheonwoo’s face brightened with radiance.
Though his face was marred by scars, in this moment he looked like a child again, and seeing him like this lifted my spirits as well.
“See you soon. You’re going to the Mudang Sect and become the greatest master there.”
“Yes! I’ll become a swordsman worthy of you, brother.”
Above the Medical Guild’s roof, the sky stretched blue and clear. The porters signaled that it was time to depart.
It was perfect weather for a journey.
Suddenly, I spoke.
“I should name the medicine Baekrin Divine Elixir. For the liquid form, would Baekrin Petroleum work?”
“That’s a wonderful name, brother.”
The Herb Guild Master Manpagok was right.
A name held significance.
Since I was creating it anyway, I wanted to give strength to this place where I lived.
So that the entire world would know of the Baekrin Medical Guild.
Thus, the Baekrin Divine Elixir was completed.
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Days later.
Yoo Ho began classifying and organizing the data obtained from this syphilis treatment.
Now it was time to discover whether it was effective against other diseases.
Having overcome the great mountain I once thought was incurable, the next turn belonged to the Herb Guild Master Manpagok.
-Thanks to you, Master Baekrin, we’ve all regained our pride. Please, allow this old man to take the next step. Hehehehe!
Thanks to this new medicine, vitality returned to the Pharmacy Guild.
The Baekrin Divine Elixir.
A so-called conditional panacea.
With the completion of the Baekrin Divine Elixir, the Pharmacy Guild came to trust me even more deeply.
‘This is good.’
I sat in meditation, circulating the vital energy of the Five Elements Divine Cultivation, the new inner cultivation method I had learned.
Though both the Five Elements Spiritual Cultivation and Five Elements Divine Cultivation appeared to handle the same Five Elements vital energy, learning the Five Elements Divine Cultivation anew brought changes to my vital energy.
My master Jegalling called it Taiji Yin-Yang Five Elements vital energy, explaining that the principles of Taiji and Yin-Yang were woven into the Five Elements vital energy, causing these transformations.
In truth, the vital energy itself had become deeper and more intense. The fire energy transcended mere warmth to become as scorching as lava, while the water energy seemed to contain vitality within the chill of glaciers.
Even as I cultivated thus, I murmured inwardly.
‘By now, cultivation slave number two must be switching places with number three.’
Currently, the Baekrin Medical Guild had assigned a total of eight cultivation slaves.
After Yoo Ho succeeded in the initial cultivation, I immediately assigned some of the Medical Assistants to take turns embracing the culture vessels and spending their training time maintaining them.
The reason was simple.
To successfully cultivate the Baekrin Divine Elixir, I had to maintain dissolved oxygen, which required me to constantly circulate my vital energy.
Yet this proved remarkably effective for cultivation as well.
Sending vital energy steadily and continuously required more concentration than ordinary effort.
On modern Earth, computers and mechanical motors would have done this work.
But since I was grinding through people to accomplish it, people themselves had to become the computers and mechanical motors.
The blue mold was so temperamental that even the slightest deficiency in dissolved oxygen would cause the cultivation to fail. And that meant failure in my training.
I’d be dragged off by Yoo Ho and scolded by my guild master.
‘I won’t have our Medical Assistants falling behind those of other guilds!’
Thanks to this subtle psychological pressure, everyone threw themselves into training with desperate intensity.
It was the moment my Master’s concerns about the Medical Assistants neglecting their inner cultivation were resolved.
As a result, the level of the Medical Assistants improved, and the cultivation accelerated—a win-win outcome. And the more this happened, the more the Medical Assistants were ground down day after day.
But…
‘I’ve even started processing yak milk from Serkhang—today’s Tibet. And rapeseed oil is useless… I had to mix in spirit pills powder to get the exact reaction I wanted.’
Unlike on Earth, penicillin in this world was truly a money-devouring beast.
Eight Medical Assistants who had awakened the third stage or higher of the Five Elements Spiritual Cultivation, and two Medical Assistants who had awakened the fifth stage.
I had to grind through a total of ten Medical Assistants to produce it. Though their inner cultivation grew rapidly as a result, a Doctor who had mastered inner cultivation was already an expensive talent.
Moreover, the materials were quite rare, and there were even internal discussions about whether ordinary spirit pill manufacturing might be cheaper.
But the effects were…
A smile spread across my face.
I had succeeded in treating syphilis, a disease once thought incurable.
Though still in the experimental stage and requiring further observation, the initial complaints had long since vanished completely.
‘Haha, insane… with such high manufacturing costs, I won’t have to worry about resistance.’
Incredibly effective yet incredibly expensive!
Mass production would only be possible if an industrial revolution occurred in the Martial Arts World.
Moreover, another effect was discovered.
Penicillin not only had therapeutic effects but also aided in advancing inner cultivation.
Truly, the direct disciple of Baekrin Uiseon!
The prized disciple whom Baekrin Uiseon, who never took students, had taken notice of!
Such talk spread in an instant.
In the midst of all this, Jegalling ordered strict information control, ensuring that nothing would be revealed to the outside until the environment for producing more of this medicine was complete and pill manufacturing
became
possible.
But everyone knew this secrecy wouldn’t last long.
The moment the treated syphilis patients arrived home, rumors would spread like wildfire.
‘And now the minimum preparations are complete. All that’s needed now is to diligently increase my own strength…’
I remained in seated meditation, eyes closed, lost in thought.
One by one. Everything is being prepared.
‘It’s not far off now.’
The time is approaching to save Baekrin Uiseon Jegalling, who in the original novel had died young and exited the stage.

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