Doctor’s Rebirth - Chapter 561

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Chapter 561
The assassins each gripped a weapon and headed toward the plains.
Moyong Family, Hwangbo Family, Ha Buk-paeng Family.
Assassins sent by these three martial sects working in concert—children trained from youth to stain their hands with blood.
Most were orphans, their identities unknowable even in death, perfect instruments for committing the perfect crime.
Each sect sent their most confident master—three Hwakyeong-level experts in total.
Plus ten supreme-tier masters combined.
A force capable of annihilating a mid-sized sect in a single night.
Their resolve: kill without question, kill without fail.
The reason was simple.
Money and face.
They resented the Gongseon Family’s expansion and needed to obstruct the Baekrin Medical Guild’s growth as well.
The original assassination target was Jin Cheon-hee.
Sending him to the North Sea Ice Palace was the foundation of their conspiracy.
While Moyong, Hwangbo, and Peng families secretly joined forces, when they learned that the Gongseon Family’s daughter had also become involved, they dispatched even stronger assassins.
Even these assassins were greatly exhausted.
“This is killing me.”
“I don’t understand why that spirit creature and Han Hyeol-ma are so fast. We barely arrived after riding horses all day.”
“And the rain on top of it all. I’m nearly dead from the cold downpour.”
The assassins muttered in voices only they could hear.
“The Hwakyeong-level and supreme masters can endure with their inner strength, but our subordinates will die. Absolutely.”
Suddenly, one assassin spoke.
“…But this wasn’t such a dense forest before, was it?”
The plains had only scattered trees. Yet what appeared before them was a thick jungle densely packed with vegetation.
A Ha Buk-paeng Family master roared and swung his sword.
Embedded in the blade was fierce energy!
Crash!
As all the illusory formations shattered, the plains returned to their original appearance.
“Just as I thought. Mere parlor tricks!”
“But those tricks bought them time to escape!”
“What!?”
Where the formation had been dispelled, not a soul remained—only two distant dots visible on the horizon.
“Cowards, fleeing like this—!”
The pettiness of accusing others of cowardice while they themselves had come in countless numbers to assassinate was beyond measure, yet their cry received no answer.
Only the distance growing ever greater.
Han Hyeol-ma and Hwang-gu continued receding into the distance.
Just as an order to pursue was about to be given.
Rumble—!
Lightning struck from a clear sky.
The spirit creature Noeji’s lightning!
Without Jin Cheon-hee’s guidance, the accuracy drops somewhat, but it doesn’t matter.
After all, I only need to take down one or two among this many.
And they don’t even have to be people.
Neigh!
The horse takes a direct hit from lightning and tumbles across the ground.
Of all things, it’s a horse carrying a supreme master.
The supreme master quickly deploys a falling technique to leap from the horse, but this is not someone Jin Cheon-hee would let escape.
Twisting only my upper body atop Hwang-gu’s back, I extend both hands.
Snap!
The Finger Flick Heaven Piercing—known to be mastered by Ilgwang, the greatest under heaven!
At a speed that puts lightning to shame, the flick projectiles shoot forth and strike the body of the one who had just leaped from the horse.
Boom boom boom!
With the sound of small firecrackers bursting, one figure collapses and can only writhe—unable to rise.
“Scatter!”
The one leading the assassin group shouts. But from my hands, the Finger Flick Heaven Piercing erupts like machine gun fire, forming a barrage of flick projectiles.
Clang! Boom!
The assassins gallop their horses and try to block the flick projectiles with their blades. However, the projectiles are not targeting them alone.
The flicks fell the horses, and the martial artists tumbling with them are buried beneath.
Neigh!
“Ahhhhh!”
“Damn it!”
I continue unleashing the Finger Flick Heaven Piercing, steadily reducing their numbers one by one.
What’s amusing is that not a single one has died in all this.
Instead, those with shattered joints will live the rest of their lives as cripples.
The three Hwakyeong masters each draw their weapons and easily block my Finger Flick Heaven Piercing, but the supreme masters cannot and begin to fall back.
“Catch them, catch them!”
They urgently drive their horses in pursuit, but as I widen the distance, I unleash more Finger Flick Heaven Piercing, and when the gap grows further, I draw my bow and fire the Thunder Dragon Bow.
After a prolonged chase like this.
What remains are ultimately the three from Hwakyeong.
In truth, with Han Hyeol-ma and Hwang-gu, I could have shaken off these three and fled directly.
Both Gongseon Yeong and I are well-rested, and Han Hyeol-ma and Hwang-gu are also vigorous from good food and rest.
But these three have been running without pause, and their horses are not spirit beasts, so they cannot catch up even if I simply flee.
Yet I come to a stop.
To leave no future troubles.
To deal with them here and now.
“Remarkable how you refuse to give up.”
Clang!
I leap down from Hwang-gu.
Gongseon Yeong also halts Han Hyeol-ma, but cannot stop as quickly as I do, managing to dismount only after falling ten zhang behind.
“You seem to have come from far away. You must have had quite the journey. Haha.”
“You brat from the Jegallim clan! You’re just as vicious as your Master! Is this how warriors fight!?”
Perhaps it was because I’d been launching pebbles at them mockingly this whole time.
The three Hwakyeong masters were seething with rage.
“You won’t die peacefully. I’ll tear you apart as painfully as possible and send you to your Master…!”
In that instant, lightning from Noeji crashes down.
Crackle!
The three masters quickly dodge out of the way.
“This bastard doesn’t even wait!?”
“Since you three gentlemen seem to enjoy ambushes, I thought I’d try it too. Is that a problem?”
Though I wore a mask, I could somehow sense my expression.
My face was definitely flushed red as a tomato.
‘Wow, younger brother…. He’s going to kill someone with his tongue at this rate.’
The rumor from the Yongbong Conference about how he’d run his mouth and caused a Gonggong Faction hermit to fall into demonic cultivation seemed to be true.
He’d become far more skilled at needling people than before.
Following my hand signal, Hwang-gu retreated, and I continued launching pebbles with the Flicking Finger technique.
But something had changed from before.
Whoosh!
Where the pebbles passed, the air turned purple!
“Poison technique! That bastard is coating the stones with poison!”
“I specially applied a poison that helps with sleep for you gentlemen. You’ve been riding day and night in the cold rain—you should get proper rest. Living like that will wear your bones away.”
“You insolent fool!”
“Ahahaha, I only spoke the truth, yet you’re so angry?”
The three Hwakyeong masters surrounded Jin Cheon-hee and Gongseon Yeong in a triangular formation.
“Oh, I notice you three aren’t coordinating your attacks. You must not be very close, are you?”
“Reckless brat. I should rip that tongue out first!”
Jin Cheon-hee smirks at the black-clothed figure.
Gongseon Yeong sent a telepathic message.
[Little benefactor. Leave your back to me for now.]
[Yes, sister.]
Gongseon Yeong planted her feet firmly and prepared the opening stance of the Gongseon Sword Technique’s Thousand Pine Form.
An absolutely defensive technique.
In contrast, Jin Cheon-hee sheathed his sword deep and hung his arms loosely, adopting a casual stance.
Twitch—
A gesture saying: come at me if you’re angry.
Finally, the three black-clothed figures attacked simultaneously.
Gongseon Yeong immediately entered her defensive stance.
While she exhaled her breath to block two powerful forces at once, Jin Cheon-hee engaged only one opponent.
Clang!
“Ahahaha, why has the young master of the Moyong Family come here?”
A Hwakyeong master from the Moyong Family.
I had discerned the Masked Person’s martial prowess simply from watching their sword stance.
“I don’t acknowledge assassins.”
Boom!
A single strike destroyed their dantian.
‘In just one blow…!’
The Masked Persons’ eyes widened.
They must have instinctively grasped just how intricate and wondrous the principles contained within the Inner Heavy Water Technique I had unleashed truly were.
‘Indeed, those from Hwa-gyeong are something else. The way they grasped it in one go—they must be prominent figures in their sect?’
I knocked out the Moyong Family assassin whose dantian had been shattered, then bounced my body playfully toward the remaining two as provocation.
Rabbit Step.
How had Hyeon made people burst with frustration back then?
As I recalled it, the bouncing Rabbit Step naturally manifested.
‘Ah, yes, yes. This is the feeling.’
Like a cat toying with a mouse, Hyeon had always played with people in such a leisurely yet elegant manner.
Though it appeared slightly less refined than Hyeon’s version, I had nonetheless perfected the essence of my own Jin Cheon-hee style Rabbit Step.
“Surely the masters of Thunderbolt Divine Fist and Five Tiger Severing Blade won’t be frightened and flee from merely a rabbit’s hop, will you? Dear elders~”
Bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce!
“You insolent brat!”
“How dare you mock the main family with that three-inch tongue of yours!”
Gongseon Yeong sent an urgent transmission.
[Benefactor, you’re really getting them riled up, aren’t you?]
[When I signal, step forward three paces and strike downward. Don’t use any footwork technique—just walk like your older sister.]
[What?]
In that instant, the two assassins charged forward, unleashing their roars.
[Now!]
I couldn’t understand what was being said at all.
Gongseon Yeong simply stepped forward three paces and brought the sword down with all her strength.
Crash!
The Hwangbo Family assassin wielding Thunderbolt Divine Fist crashed his forehead into the blade I thought would cleave empty air and collapsed.
“Cough?”
I sent a transmission.
[The Hwangbo Family’s fists follow a linear trajectory, so they must always take three steps before releasing their power. When you know exactly which direction they’ll strike and who they’ll kill, it becomes tedious to be on the receiving end.]
[…What is this…?]
[Now, the last one!]
Crash!
I released a palm strike.
The strike flowed in a smooth arc, striking the remaining assassin’s solar plexus and sending him flying.
Watching this, Gongseon Yeong felt her skin prickle.
‘This is…almost like precognition of the future.’
I struck the flying assassin’s neck to knock him unconscious, then destroyed his dantian as well.
In the wilderness still filled with dawn, only Jin Cheon-hee’s blue eyes gleamed like a blade.
“Sister, sister?”
“Ah, yes.”
“I’ll strip the assassins’ clothes and use them to set up a rough tent. Sister, could you chop some firewood for us?”
“Y, yes.”
Gongseon Hyeon, being the older sister, also employed strategies bordering on prescience. But that was the way of the Gongseon Family—quite different from the Jegallim Family.
Gongseon Yeong found it difficult to meet Jin Cheon-hee’s blue eyes directly for a while.
It was a terror that anyone who had experienced the true nature of the Jegallim Family would encounter at least once.
Surprisingly, Jin Cheon-hee seemed accustomed to such reactions and pretended not to notice.
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I even provided emergency treatment to the supreme masters and stripped all the assassins’ clothes to fashion tents.
And furthermore.
“Sister, what a beautiful large bonfire this is.”
Crackle, crackle!
I immediately arranged the tent encampment cozily and made a bonfire in the center so they wouldn’t freeze to death.
“Just… just kill me…. You viper!”
“Everyone. You can live well even without a dantian. Look at this bonfire. How beautiful is this? Life is filled with such beautiful and wonderful things. I’ve even roasted potatoes under the bonfire so you don’t skip meals. They’re delicious.”
“Kill me! This vicious bastard Jegallim scum!”
“Oh, you’re full of vigor. At this rate, you’ll endure in the wilderness until someone comes to rescue you.”
Saying so, I clasped my hands reverently toward the naked assassins.
“Yesterday you came to assassinate those of the same righteous faction, but from tomorrow onward, you will experience the lives of ordinary, new commoners. Be happy. Everyone. You have families in your hometowns. Just stay bundled up in the tent and endure until the rescue team arrives. If you spot an official post, I’ll definitely send people.”
My profile was almost saintly.
Then I pushed raw potatoes one by one into the mouths of children raised as assassins since childhood.
“I’ve already removed all the poison from your molars. You can’t commit suicide. If you have nowhere to go, come to Baekrin Medical Guild. Don’t bite your tongue trying to kill yourself—eat the potato instead. I’ve left a water pouch at the tent entrance so you won’t choke.”
The ropes were deliberately tied loosely so they could be untied quickly.
I mounted Hwang-gu.
“Everyone, farewell, farewell. Be happy!”
“This damned Ilgwang bastard!!”
“Ilgwang, you son of a bitch!”
“You cursed bastard!”
“I support your second life!”
I shouted loudly with inner energy, my voice ringing out as Hwang-gu and I departed.
Woof, woof!
Hwang-gu herded the enemies’ horses like a shepherd herding sheep.
Watching this mad scene, Gongseon Yeong’s fingertips trembled.
‘The brat is crazy, that much is true, but he still showed mercy because they’re righteous faction….’
He set up the bonfire and made the tent beautifully, didn’t he?
If they were heterodox faction, he would have simply sent them off without hesitation.
‘Even my dull eyes can see that.’
But among the righteous faction, unless they were bottom-tier assassins, those raised delicately would never understand even that much.

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