Doctor’s Rebirth - Chapter 566

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Chapter 566
“What are you going to do?”
“I’ll do what I can.”
“And if you still can’t? If destruction is the only option left?”
“…Then I’ll have to cause a scene.”
“You’re insane.”
“Kehehehe!”
I laughed it off deliberately, keeping things light.
I organized everything I’d examined in my mind.
“….”
Hwang-gu wagged his tail watching his master.
I stroked Hwang-gu’s forehead, lost in thought.
‘The Nine Yang Meridian Severing means a constitution that generates heat from nine meridians. This is infinite energy. Patient, how are you even alive?’
Normal human body temperature ranges from 36 to 37 degrees, but exceeding 38 degrees becomes dangerous, and surpassing 42 degrees usually results in death. Even if someone survives by lowering their temperature, they may suffer fatal disabilities.
Humans are like that, but expanding to other life forms, desert ants are known to endure up to 55 degrees maximum, while there’s a creature called the “Pompeii worm” that lives in deep-sea hydrothermal vent areas and survives comfortably even at 80 degrees.
‘The mystery of life…. This is truly the mystery of life.’
It would have been better to call Master.
‘This is a Gangho world disease! You bastards! I’m a surgeon! But how am I supposed to treat it without even breaking anything? You crazy bastards!’
Already becoming a jack-of-all-trades quack doctor at the Gangho world comprehensive hospital after filling the Emperor’s teeth, I screamed internally.
In any case, I’d absorbed most of Master’s knowledge.
The reason I can’t say all of it is because some things require genius.
In the Gangho world, even medicine is based on yin-yang and five elements, so it can’t coexist with Earth medicine based on logic and data.
‘Damn it. Why did I have to fall into a place like this?’
Jin Cheon-hee, a devoted reader of hardcore martial arts novels, separated himself as a doctor from himself as a devoted reader.
I never thought I’d face the same agony treating the Nine Yang Meridian Severing that I experienced treating Master’s Nine Yin Meridian Severing.
With things as they were, I decided to hypnotize myself into thinking I was a native Gangho person and approach it that way.
‘First, thinking about the differences between yin and yang meridian severing, I need to recall the differences between yin and yang qi. Yin qi is low, cold, and still. Yang qi is hot, light, and fast.’
…Ah. My head’s already spinning.
‘Still, there’s no burden on his body. Unlike Master, there’s no aortic dissection or middle layer degeneration. In short, he grew up beautifully using all of Aisha Kingdom’s resources to the maximum.’
It’s insane that someone with the Nine Yin Meridian Severing survived by wielding a blade in the blood massacre of the Sect Annihilation Heavenly Fire.
On the other hand, this prince learned about his Nine Yang Meridian Severing when he was young and, without overexerting himself, moved slowly and carefully, treating his body as delicately as glass.
‘Of course, he probably coughed up blood and lost consciousness here and there, but his body remained intact. That’s what’s remarkable.’
When treating Master’s Seven Yang Meridian Severing, Master first artificially opened the Conception and Governing Vessels and performed bloodletting.
While feeding him miraculous medicine, Master used the secret medical technique he personally developed, the Modified Gold Needle Great Method, to artificially induce an incomplete bone and flesh rebirth.
It doesn’t need to be complete bone and flesh rebirth. Half would be good enough.
Even that much would allow the Seven Yang Meridian Severing to be healed.
More precisely, the body still generates yang qi, but I made it so the body could withstand it and use it as inner energy.
‘According to Master’s treatment notes, the hint came from the Solar Divine Technique.’
The Solar Divine Palace, one of the Bird Faction forces, has its disciples learn the Solar Divine Technique across generations, and this Solar Divine Technique artificially transforms the body into yang meridian severing in this process.
Of course, people die if that happens, so naturally there’s also a secret to how the body can remain free even with extreme yang qi.
My Master didn’t know the exact incantations of the Solar Divine Art, but she was aware that the martial techniques of the Solar Divine Palace possessed such properties.
Therefore.
She had artificially triggered a bone-replacement rebirth, transforming my constitution once more into one capable of withstanding yang energy.
“That’s the Solar Body.”
“Huh?”
Gongseon Yeong paused mid-sip of something resembling vodka and looked at me.
“No, I’m just saying your constitution is really excellent.”
“Ha ha ha, I hear that a lot.”
Gongseon Yeong was born with the Solar Body from the start.
The reason this method doesn’t work for the Nine Yin Meridians is that yin energy itself is inherently slow and heavy.
Simply put, since the body radiates cold energy, metabolism naturally slows as well.
Even if an incomplete bone-replacement rebirth grants some resistance to cold energy, the fundamental truth remains—one is being robbed of heat as an energy source.
Enduring the generation of heat and enduring the loss of heat are entirely different matters.
Of course, even using part of those properties did help extend my Master Jegalling’s lifespan. But ultimately, it merely postponed the time until death.
Hmm… then would an incomplete bone-replacement rebirth also improve the Nine Yang Meridians?
Then….
What if I combined an incomplete bone-replacement rebirth with learning the Solar Divine Art?
I’m already studying the North Sea Ice Palace’s Ice White Divine Art… but the Solar Divine Art.
I distinctly remember Ju Wang-ya learning it.
Didn’t Ju Wang-ya also study extreme yin-series divine arts?
Pungju-ha.
She learned both extreme yin and extreme yang divine arts to wield her innate abilities more freely.
Normally, learning mutually contradictory divine arts should have led to demonic cultivation and a one-way ticket to destruction, but the imperial bloodline’s innate ability resolved it.
‘I should have learned the Solar Divine Art at the Imperial Palace Library. What a waste….’
At the time, I had postponed the Solar Divine Art slightly to quickly absorb what was necessary within the given timeframe.
I found myself thinking it might have been different if I had known then.
‘I need to send a letter to the Imperial Palace.’
I sent a letter to the Imperial Palace requesting they send the Solar Divine Art.
I also wrote that if there were any divine arts allowing one to learn both extreme yin and extreme yang martial techniques, I would appreciate their support in that as well.
Of course… it’s madness.
I don’t expect they’d actually send such peerless martial arts through mere Cheonryeong courier service, but I have to try what I can.
Chirp-!
Cheonryeong flapped his wings as if to say trust only him.
“I’m counting on you. Really counting on you!”
Chirp, chirp chirp!
“Got it. I really mean it.”
And so I sent off the bluebird of hope. Or rather, the Cheonryeong of hope.
With this, I might be able to solve it even without Busul.
So this is Plan B that I had vaguely conceived from the beginning.
* * *
Starting the next day, I began treatment in earnest.
“First, you must understand that this is a disease difficult to treat even with Buseul.”
“I’m aware.”
“And my specialty is Buseul.”
“I know that too. The people here call you the founder of Ondol and Yakson, who eradicated incurable diseases as Baek Rin’s successor, but that’s beside the point.”
My career compass was spinning strangely in this place.
“In any case, this will be a path of fighting without tea or cannon, so it will be quite painful. And it will be uncertain.”
“…I’ve already told my mother that even if I die, she should harbor no resentment.”
His expression was resolute. Then, with a slow hand, he presented me with the seal of the Aisha Kingdom.
It was written in their language, and Gongseon Yeong translated it for me.
“It’s an immunity grant—a promise to forgive you once, no matter what happens.”
“Do you understand my resolve now?”
“…”
It meant he truly had no intention of receiving Buseul secretly.
Even if he were to die in the process, he would never harbor resentment.
“Couldn’t you simply receive it in secret?”
“I know Buseul isn’t bad. However, I am not a Kang Ho-in—I am royalty. Do you know how difficult it is to keep silent about receiving Buseul? If I had two bodies, I could create a secret. But that’s impossible, isn’t it?”
Suddenly, Eun Wang-ya and Geum Wang-ya came to mind.
“…That’s true. A human body is singular.”
“Thanks to the Ondol you created, many people in the Aisha Kingdom have had their lives saved. However, the decision to import that Ondol was mine. Making such decisions is the duty of those in power. If I lose ‘authority,’ I cannot make such decisions ever again.”
Jin Cheon-hee answered calmly to those words.
“Even in death, I cannot make that decision.”
“…In the end, it’s the same, so there’s no great difference for me.”
Tap, tap, tap.
I slowly drummed my fist against the table.
Within that peculiar rhythm, the young man gazed at the ceiling with blue eyes for a long while.
Then he looks at me.
“Your Highness, what is your name?”
“You should have already known?”
“Aside from the difficulty in pronunciation, it’s far too long. You wouldn’t call yourself by such a lengthy name in everyday life, would you?”
“Then call me Han Bing—a Central Plains name I received from the North Sea Ice Palace.”
“The character for ‘cold’ and the character for ‘ice.'”
“A name carries power, they say. I chose it hoping to suppress this heat even slightly.”
“Understood, Your Highness Han Bing.”
“I…as you can see, was raised receiving much love. I grew up like a parasite under the care of many people.”
“There’s no need to demean yourself so much…”
“Look at me. I cannot live without borrowing the hands of others for what I wear and what I eat.”
He clenched his fist as if suppressing his fury.
Whether his nails dug into his flesh, blood flowed from his tightly clenched fist.
The steam rising from that blood was truly a sight most grotesque.
“How could I deny what those who helped me believe in and still become a righteous ruler?”
“…So it’s not for religion, but for the people who helped Your Majesty.”
He nodded.
I exhaled deeply.
There was no pretense or falsehood in his words.
At his core, he was simply a good person. A righteous and deeply responsible one.
I wanted to call him reckless, but the words caught in my throat.
When I thought about it, his entire life was recklessness itself, wasn’t it?
“Actually, I was planning to cause some trouble. I’m quite good at it, you know.”
Since he had lowered his guard, I decided to lower mine as well.
“…What?”
“Just. There are a few tricks that the Bloodline Demon Lord taught me in the past.”
I said only that much and offered no further explanation.
For some reason, Han Bing felt a chill run down his spine at those words.
I continued regardless.
“Understood. If Your Majesty is prepared to fight, then so am I.”
Stepping into the ring were the Patient and the Doctor—two people.
The opponent to face was Guyang Jeolmaek.
Special techniques were sealed.
Yet I had no intention of losing.
The Doctor was born a fighter, and would never carelessly end the Patient’s life.
Grasping life had always been that way.
For some, it was an easy day. For others, it was a crumpled trophy earned after fighting, fighting, and fighting again.
A glittering champion’s belt wasn’t necessary.
Even a tattered consolation prize would do.
What mattered was obtaining it in the first place.
Living meant surviving without dying—that’s simply how it was.
“Shall we start with the Eight Extraordinary Meridians Restoration Technique?”
Even if it wasn’t beautiful, even if more battles awaited after this.
To avoid death, I needed to secure one victory right now.
“Does it hurt much?”
“Ah yes, it hurts quite a bit. But it must be done.”
“Good.”
Let him taste the full course I gave the Emperor.

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