Doctor’s Rebirth - Chapter 633

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Chapter 633
It was at that moment.
Screech!
Noe Jin-i, perched atop my head, clicked his beak sharply and cried out.
“Huh? What’s wrong?”
Cheonjin and Nanman in the sky began shrieking in unison, following their mother’s lead.
Hwang-gu at my feet started barking as well.
Woof, woof, woof, woof!
As I was about to ask what was happening amid the growling barks, something burst through the poison mist with a loud “bang!”
And it shot upward.
The height it reached was a staggering fifty zhang!
‘Insane! One hundred fifty meters in a single leap? That’s impossible with mere Hwagyeong cultivation!’
Surely the Three Elites weren’t fighting on the bandits’ side.
My eyes widened at this unexpected turn, and that figure, now appearing as a mere dot at such heights, suddenly spun its body in the sky before—
“There you are! You bastard Jegal!”
—it plummeted straight down toward me.
It was a hairy creature wearing human clothes.
I thought it might simply be someone with excessive body hair, but then I saw the tail.
‘What—a monkey?! Why is a monkey wielding a staff?!’
Despite my shocked thoughts, my voice and expression remained composed.
The Hyeonwon Jeondan Singeong was a technique that couldn’t afford even a moment of panic.
“Noe Jin-i. Fire.”
Screech!
At my command, Noe Jin-i flew forward and struck with lightning.
Crash, boom, bang!
“Cheonjin, Nanman too!”
As the three Eungryong unleashed their lightning, the monkey spun its staff in a blur, deflecting the bolts.
I leaped directly from the treetop.
Bang!
The monkey landed, cleaving the tree in half with a single strike.
In that moment, Cheonjin and Nanman coordinated their attacks, launching additional lightning.
The monkey blocked the lightning with its staff once more.
“What is this…! You don’t even look shocked to see me!”
Amid the monkey’s astonishment, I calmly drew my Taeul Danseonggeom and descended into the attack.
The unsheathed blade exhaled frigid energy as it cut through the air toward my opponent.
“Fearless bastard. Is this why you’re a Heavenly Defier?”
The monkey urgently swung its staff toward me again.
Crash, boom, bang!
The staff and blade collided, creating a tremendous wave of force.
Only then could I see my opponent clearly.
‘A monkey over two meters tall?’
When I saw it from a distance, I thought I was seeing things, but now it was certain.
The other warriors were shocked and cried out in surprise.
“Wow, is that a monkey costume!”
“I wondered why Chongchaeju of the Eighteen Bandits of the Green Forest hadn’t appeared all this time, but now I see he was ill and couldn’t come out.”
“No. It must be a special demonic technique!”
Surprisingly, in this adult’s E-B-Land Gangho world, everything made sense.
You could do a monkey costume like that.
You could become like that due to a strange illness that modern medicine couldn’t explain.
Among demonic techniques, those that transform the user’s body are also surprisingly common.
Even Gokgol Hyeolma, whom I faced in the past, didn’t his skin transform into tree bark due to the influence of demonic techniques?
But I thought of a different hypothesis.
‘This. It’s similar to the aura Yoo Ho emitted when he said the experimental results were contaminated and needed to be discarded and redone.’
Weaker than Yoo Ho, but the nature was nearly identical.
‘Could it be a spirit creature?’
I alone had come closest to the correct answer.
It was thanks to my long experience of being beaten by Yoo Ho.
‘Yoo Ho does his job well. How about this fellow?’
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“My name is Yeon Won-wang. The brothers of Gangho call me Jecheon Soseng.”
At those words, I grasped the Bing Jeong Sword and answered calmly.
“You are human.”
“…?”
Yeon Won-wang couldn’t understand why this fellow suddenly said such a thing.
It was routine to curse at this appearance as a ‘monster’ or to be scolded with ‘Have you already abandoned your human body? Hyeolseonggyo/Demonic Sect!’
This was the first time someone calmly pronounced him human.
‘So Ilgwang really did go mad.’
In any case, Yeon Won-wang continued.
“Well. Contrary to what you say, I am not human. By race, I belong to the Daeseongseong.”
Daeseongseong!
My eyes widened.
‘Isn’t that a race mentioned in the Classic of Mountains and Seas?’
The ancient text Classic of Mountains and Seas is a book that records strange beings from imagination, mythology, and legends.
On Earth, it’s passed down as a fictional bestiary, but in this martial arts world, it’s real?!
‘Since it’s a book that’s been continuously added to through the hands of various scholars since the Spring and Autumn period, it does appear frequently in martial arts novels.’
It’s used as a regular reference in martial arts fiction.
Not in modern martial arts.
Rather, as it transitioned to web novels recently, martial arts became even more plain and simple.
The cruel or sexual descriptions frequently seen in 90s rental shop martial arts novels are now largely toned down.
In any case, mentions of the Classic of Mountains and Seas often appeared in old martial arts novels.
Jicheon Cheonma in particular had many aspects that didn’t seem like traditional martial arts these days.
‘Since Jicheon Cheonma appears later with Tuseon and fights Yeo Ha-ryun, it wouldn’t be strange if the Shanhai Jing were real.’
In such texts, there exists a race called the Xingxing.
Their appearance resembles monkeys, but they are described as capable of speech and possessing various mysterious powers.
‘Wait, isn’t this basically Sun Wukong?’
So that’s why he calls himself Jecheon Xiaosheng.
Not Jecheon Daeseong?
In any case, seeing the character for “great” attached to Xingxing suggests he’s on the larger side.
Jin Cheon-hee spoke.
“A Xingxing spirit creature… or rather, as a member of your race, why are you meddling in the affairs of the Central Plains?”
Officially, I had decided to treat him as a person.
Professor Jin couldn’t forget the taste of Yoo Ho.
If I could just deploy one more mk-2 unit, it could make a tremendous contribution to human health.
Thanks to Jin Cheon-hee’s efforts, the medical staff at the research institute had now reached a point where they could conduct their own research and development, but that was merely a contingency plan for after I was gone.
Now that I’d completed that system, shouldn’t I use everything I can while I still can?
Jecheon Soseng Yeonwon-wang spoke.
“Huh? Krahaha! How amusing. The mountains have always been our domain. Just because humans have come to live there, does that make them human territory? Back when the Great King existed, do you think mere humans could have dared to climb the mountains?”
‘The Great King? Could he possibly be talking about… Sun Wukong?’
Jin Cheon-hee cursed inwardly.
‘If I defeat this bastard, does Sun Wukong come next…? No, that can’t be. His name is Yeonwon-wang, which means “yearning for the monkey king,” so there’s no way.’
Jin Cheon-hee spoke.
“That’s too much between people of the same kind.”
Officially, this creature was also human.
“You’re insane. I’m saying this much, yet you still treat me as human. Krahaha!”
For some reason, he didn’t seem to dislike it.
He spoke.
“Hehe, well… it doesn’t matter much now anyway. Thanks to you, I can spread my wings and move about even more freely!”
‘Spread my wings? Because of me?’
Could this have something to do with the Heavenly Mechanism or whatever?
The moment that thought flashed through my mind, he immediately swung his staff.
As Jin Cheon-hee tried to block with the Bing Jing Sword.
Crack!
The staff transformed into a nine-segmented whip.
‘If I block with my sword, I’ll be in trouble.’
Instead of blocking, Jin Cheon-hee used his movement technique to dodge to the side.
Boom-boom-boom-crash!
The ground caved in deeply from the impact, and everything around shattered.
“You dodged that? Without blocking? How sharp is your vision anyway? Or wait—there’s no way a human could possess precognition, is there?”
Instead of answering, Jin Cheon-hee quickly analyzed the crater before him.
‘The power is tremendous, yet I don’t sense any inner energy. How can such force exist without it? And this power feels fundamentally different from what warriors use. That’s it. Yoo Ho.’
That was the moment when Yeon Won-wang uprooted Jin Cheon-hee—who had been trying to hold his ground with the Thousand-Pound Weight technique—like a sapling and hurled him away.
The methods Yoo Ho employed were fundamentally different from the martial arts used by ordinary martial artists.
‘I never thought getting beaten by Yoo Ho every day would prove this useful.’
Professor Jin felt profound gratitude toward the graduate student who couldn’t graduate.
‘Thank you, Yoo Ho. You saved my life.’
Meanwhile, Yeon Won-wang found Jin Cheon-hee’s response intriguing and spoke.
“Normally, any martial artist would scoff at an attack without sword energy and block at least one strike… but you’re quite peculiar.”
With those words, he launched his next attack.
Each incoming blow possessed devastating destructive power.
Jin Cheon-hee cursed inwardly while evading Yeon Won-wang’s assault.
‘Each strike from that creature carries the force of being hit by a truck?’
Fast and heavy.
There’s a reason we learn in school that mass multiplied by acceleration equals force.
‘Newton’s teachings are truly etched into my very bones.’
Feeling Newton’s Second Law through his entire body.
Crash, boom! Boom-boom-crash!
Jin Cheon-hee evaded the creature’s attacks by the thinnest of margins.
‘Simple but powerful. Doesn’t he use inner force? Or can’t he?’
Regardless, his opponent was a spirit creature.
Moreover, one capable of transforming into human form.
He was likely a being with a lifespan as vast as the Six-Horned Venomous Snake’s.
Of course, the Six-Horned Venomous Snake felt far larger and more powerful than this one.
In any case.
‘I should assume he’s hiding a card or two that I don’t know about.’
Well then, shall I try to reveal it?
What exactly is he concealing?
In that instant, the Icy Frost Sword advanced in an elegant arc.
The swordmaster wielding the Taeul Danseonggeom lineage began launching continuous attacks.
The secret technique of Taeul Danseonggeom.
Taeul Ten Cuts!
Ten blade strikes in a single breath.
Like a sudden downpour, the entire field of vision becomes engulfed in sword light.
Points converge to form lines, and lines converge to form surfaces.
Ultra-rapid thrusts become a wall, pressuring the enemy.
“Good heavens. What is this…!”
The Olyun Society swordsmen engaged in combat suddenly lost their vision to the brilliant and rapid thrusts.
Man Seon spoke urgently.
“Snap out of it! That opponent is beyond our level.”
Startled by those words, they were about to raise their swords to fight again when—
In less than a second, even the bandit leader across from them found his gaze captured by Jin Cheon-hee’s sword technique.
Whether or not—it made no difference to me.
My blade advanced toward the enemy.
Yet the sword energy that touched the opponent’s body scattered without leaving a mark.
‘No impact?’
Yeon Won-wang burst into laughter as if he’d been waiting for this moment.
“Kekekeke. I cannot compare to the Great King born from stone, but I too have partaken of the immortal wine and peaches of immortality from the Great King! I have achieved something akin to what humans call the Adamantine Body!”
‘The peaches of immortality actually exist!? No, wait. Eungryong is here, so… it’s possible. If he received wine and peaches of immortality from the Great King…’
If that were truly the case.
‘Could I pluck this creature’s hair, blow on it, and command hundreds of graduate students?’
A chill ran down my spine.
If that were so, I’d only need to pay one salary.
‘What kind of divine talent has descended upon me!’
My eyes gleamed. Then I spoke once more with utmost gravity.
“Yeon Won-wang! You keep trying to frighten our side with empty boasts, but I know the truth about you—you are human! You are a human being!”
“…?”
Why did this madman keep insisting that he was human?
It made no sense.
In that moment.
An eerie sensation crept over me.
A strange urge to distance myself from this human before my eyes!

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