Doctor’s Rebirth - Chapter 588

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Chapter 588
This is the problem with the Demonic Sect.
‘Schemes and conspiracies run rampant, so if you haven’t seen it with your own eyes, everyone treats you like a paranoid fool!’
Yeo Ha-ryun had designated me as his right arm.
After so many cycles of the Sub-leaders killing and being killed by each other, these madmen no longer trusted even that.
I couldn’t fathom what charm Yeo Ha-ryun possessed that made people die for his loyalty, but Ilkana ultimately shed tears of blood.
‘You damned brothers, please just stay still. No… if you’re going to die anyway, let me as your strategist go with you. Just wait!’
Thus Ilkana personally commanded and brought along some of the Fanatical Followers who swore to share life and death with him.
‘These fools don’t understand why Yeo Ha-ryun placed them in the rear.’
Those excessively devoted to doctrine—Yeo Ha-ryun deliberately kept his distance from them.
Because they died too easily.
That’s why around Yeo Ha-ryun were people like Ilkana who looked after their own lives, while he pushed these Fanatical Followers to the back lines.
‘As expected.’
He didn’t ask why they came, why they didn’t listen, or whether this was convenient timing because he needed them.
He said nothing of the sort.
“Everyone prepare yourselves.”
That was all.
I could feel a few of the Fanatical Followers holding their breath, thinking it was cool.
At the Sub-leader’s command, the Demonic Sect members formed a formation and prepared.
“Ha-ryun. What is this…?”
“Brother, your experience fighting the Hyeolseonggyo is… well… you’ve had plenty of one-on-one combat, but you probably haven’t experienced anything like this.”
The blood of the dead Hyeolseonggyo members flowed across the ground.
All that blood began gathering toward a single point.
Cho Cheon-gun lay collapsed in a state of suicide as well.
Though his heart should have stopped, his corpse laughed maniacally as if still alive.
“Krahahahaha! The seed of Banson! And heaven’s puppet Cheon Sal-seong! Now that I’ve awakened the Blood Dragon Body and the Gwanghonin! Let’s see if you can survive this!”
At that maniacal laughter, Jin Cheon-hee spoke calmly.
“Ha-ryun, I don’t understand what he’s doing, but I can tell the situation is going to hell.”
“Yeah. That’s right, brother.”
“So what happens next?”
Jin Cheon-hee waited for Yeo Ha-ryun, who had experience, to give some instruction.
Yeo Ha-ryun answered.
“I don’t know.”
“What?”
“First, we form a formation and endure with strength.”
Sure enough, I could sense Ilkana checking the formation with a pale voice, ‘We’re finished. Damn it, we’re finished! That’s why I told you to wait outside! You crazy bastards!’
Jin Cheon-hee thought.
‘Ah, so that’s why Yeo Ha-ryun told the kids to wait outside.’
Perhaps the fact that everyone except Yeo Ha-ryun died at the Jicheon Cheonma was
Of course, since Yeo Ha-ryun is Cheon Sal-seong, it could be that he simply had many enemies.
Or perhaps, just perhaps.
What if Yeo Ha-ryun is simply too powerful, and as a warrior with ordinary talent, I’m not worth his attention?
Still, this time I’ve learned enough social skills from my brother to at least tell him to wait outside.
For the first time, I began to doubt the Jicheon Cheonma’s account.
In that instant, a deafening roar erupted.
Kiiiiiiiii–!
“Everyone, channel your inner force to your ears!”
Yet several Demonic Sect Members lacking sufficient inner power vomited blood from their ears and collapsed.
That blood too was sucked into the temple.
“Hyeong, are you alright?”
“Hey, whether I’m alright isn’t the problem. Look after your subordinates first.”
At those words, Yeo Ha-ryun turned around. Ilkana shouted.
“What the hell is this madness working for such a cursed superior! Ahhh! Damn it! At least the medical examination kept us alive. You lot, whoever survived, drink the recovery pills now and prepare for the second examination!”
“…She seems fine.”
‘Ha-ryun. I was teaching you social skills… No, never mind. You’re the protagonist anyway, so what does it matter.’
Through this incident, I realized just how important Ilkana, the strategist, was to Yeo Ha-ryun.
I smiled brightly with genuine warmth.
“Haha, keep that up and your strategist will stab you in the back. Watch yourself.”
“…?”
Leaving Yeo Ha-ryun bewildered, Ilkana sent a grateful nod.
A strategist understands another strategist’s heart.
Gongseon Yeong observed this and thought.
‘Ah, Yeo Ha-ryun really is… a strange superior.’
A superior who assigns work ‘excessively’ versus one who tangles it ‘strangely’.
‘I’m not sure which is more unbearable, but either way, Gongseon Hyeon is the best. Haha!’
She concluded thus.
I closed my eyes and concentrated my inner force, beginning to perceive the sounds and presences all around.
After spreading my senses for a while, I finally opened my eyes and spoke.
“We’re in trouble.”
“Hmm?”
I opened my mouth.
“I’ve awakened everyone outside.”
“What?”
The people who had been inside the empty buildings beyond the fortress.
A child showing transformation with scales sprouting as he rose from his coffin.
Their numbers appeared to be at least several thousand.
Clearly a different type of being than the Gwanghonin.
“You’ve awakened all of them?”
“And there’s another problem. Those outside the fortress don’t seem to be controlled by blood contracts.”
Gongseon Yeong spoke.
“You awakened all of them?”
“….”
Chills ran down my spine.
Soon, screams erupted from outside.
Like waves, the screams grew louder and louder.
Human voices. Multiple people shrieking in unison.
Not a shred of reason remained in them.
When they expelled nothing but pure rage from deep within their vocal cords, I fell silent at the grotesque wails.
And then.
“Kwaaaaaaaa–!”
The sound echoed from inside the fortress as well.
I never knew the sound of shattering ice could be so deafening.
Jin Cheon-hee spoke with blue eyes.
“It seems the Son of the Northern Ice Palace Lord has awakened too.”
“Was the resurrection successful?”
“I’m not sure if it’s a corpse demon or not.”
Jin Cheon-hee pulled something from his pocket.
It was a pipe.
“Brother?”
“Ah, sorry. I need to endure this.”
What was he apologizing for?
Yeo Ha-ryun couldn’t understand, but he was grateful that the pipe he had gifted was proving useful.
It circulated inner energy and stabilized one’s vital force.
Whatever medicinal herbs were burned inside it, their effects were doubled.
Whoosh—
Jin Cheon-hee spent a precious moment with the pipe between his lips.
No one tried to stop him.
Before us, the mysterious test subjects had awakened, and behind us, the child of the Northern Ice Palace Lord.
If they were resurrected through the Hyeolseonggyo’s forbidden arts, there was no way to predict how they would manifest.
Jin Cheon-hee’s eyes never dimmed their blue light.
Rather, they grew brighter and brighter, gleaming like blue flames.
“Wow, it’s been so long since I’ve smoked—my head’s spinning.”
He jested, then slowly rose to his feet.
Everyone watched to see what this genius of the Jegallga would do.
“So, did you achieve unity?”
Yeo Ha-ryun answered Jin Cheon-hee’s first question.
“You really are my brother.”
For a moment, it sounded as though two people were speaking.
* * *
The medicinal herbs rapidly calmed the mind.
My mind spun slightly, yet paradoxically became more lucid—a peculiar state of consciousness.
That’s simply how life is.
In any case, if circumstances demand it, I can always release Yeo Ha-ryun.
Those entities rolling about outside in all directions like the curse of dawn itself.
Whether they’re the perfected version of the Hyeolseonggyo test subjects displayed in Jicheon Cheonma, or something of a lower tier, I cannot say.
But if I threw Yeo Ha-ryun into that mass, something would certainly work out.
However, doing so would mean people would die.
‘The question is where to draw the line on what defines humanity.’
Like those Hollywood zombie films, if they truly cannot return to being human, should I kill them all?
But how do I know they truly cannot return?
What if even a shred of reason could be restored? How would I know that?
Who has the authority to define such things?
Regardless, these people are innocent commoners.
The esteemed North Sea Ice Palace Master claimed he placed criminals here, yet that young child who died in my arms—
I cannot fathom what grave crime that brainwashed child could have committed to warrant enduring this fate.
“How did you know about my condition, brother?”
“….”
Yeo Ha-ryun’s crimson eyes possess an enchanting quality.
Particularly after the midpoint of Jicheon Cheonma, Yeo Ha-ryun achieves unity with Cheon Sal-seong, and from that moment onward, he displays power that is utterly, maddeningly formidable.
-The more people he kills, the stronger he becomes.
Reading only this, one might think it identical to before, no?
But the meaning of growing stronger through unity is not merely that enlightenment expands.
In essence, it means that when Cheon Sal-seong kills, there is no loss of inner power.
In other words.
There is no consumption of inner energy! He can kill infinitely!
Like a revolver with infinite ammunition, or a missile that can be fired endlessly… something along those lines.
The concept of fatigue ceases to exist.
Of course, as Yeo Ha-ryun gains such insane power, worthy adversaries eventually emerge to match him….
But they only appear in the latter half of Jicheon Cheonma.
The fact that Yeo Ha-ryun is in this state at this point in time is frankly absurd.
‘This bastard…. How in the world did he become this strong while I wasn’t looking?’
Huuuh—
I inhale and exhale the smoke.
The Heart Demon seemed to settle slightly.
‘If I were more like Master, drawing clearer lines between right and wrong, would things be different?’
After all, these are commoners I have no prior connection to.
If I console myself by saying I’ve learned martial arts and am therefore different from that person, would this Heart Demon vanish?
Could that even be called ‘me’?
I know that agonizing over it serves no purpose.
“In any case, I’ll have to handle this step by step.”
“…Should I just kill them all?”
Crack!
Jin Cheon-hee’s pipe struck Yeo Ha-ryun’s head.
“Brother.”
“Absolutely not. Once you achieve perfect unity, you might be capable of killing them all. But I will never permit it.”
“Taking the difficult path again, aren’t you, Doctor brother.”
“Do you have a problem with that?”
“No, actually it’s fine. Because you’re like that, I can barely maintain my humanity.”
“I see.”
“So what are we going to do?”
…
Is it possible? Can I do it?
In this moment, between the sunken heart demons, hundreds of tiny Jin Cheon-hees chattered away, each proposing different methods.
Their appearance resembled sparrows gathered at dawn.
Not a single one entertained the variable of killing the commoners.
The tiny Jin Cheon-hees spoke.
‘Is it possible?’, ‘That doesn’t mean we should give up.’, ‘Are you confident?’, ‘No.’, ‘Is there a better method right now? Jin Cheon-hees!’, ‘Can’t we be more creative?’, ‘We need to consider practicality too.’, ‘Let’s flip the framework.’
Soon all the Jin Cheon-hees spoke simultaneously.
‘After all, whether it’s Hyeolseonggyo or the North Sea Ice Palace, why should we follow their rules?’
Then human Jin Cheon-hee spoke.
“I think there’s a possibility we can reverse this. So let’s not kill them—just suppress them adequately and lock them away.”
“Is that even possible?”
“We’ll make it possible.”
Isn’t that why I’m bearing this pain?
Gongseon Yeong spoke.
“How exactly? Little benefactor.”
Whoosh—
Jin Cheon-hee swallowed the last smoke and extinguished the flame. Putting the pipe away again, he grinned widely.
“Let’s run!”
With those words, he bolted forward as if playing tag.
“Crazy bastard!”
Gongseon Yeong shouted and ran after this eccentric genius.
As she and Jin Cheon-hee ran, Prince Han-bing had no choice but to follow as well.
Yeo Ha-ryun naturally followed behind his brother.
The Demonic Sect members and Ilkana ran alongside them.
Everyone began running without knowing the purpose or reason.

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