Doctor’s Rebirth - Chapter 699

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Chapter 699
A strange chill crept up the back of my neck.
“If these aren’t the wounded, then who exactly is?”
“Ah… How virtuous of Baek Rin-ui-seon’s disciple. Aren’t those all just beasts I’ve hunted? Do you wish to treat even animals?”
Humans no longer appeared human to him.
Then why was he conversing with me?
‘What’s his standard? No, what’s the point of figuring that out? What matters is…’
It was at that moment.
Boom!
A massive explosion erupted in the distance.
From what I could see, it appeared to originate from the Namgung Family’s perimeter.
The acrid black smoke billowing upward suggested it wasn’t caused by martial arts.
More explosions, smoke, and thunderous blasts followed in rapid succession.
‘Bombs! At this timing? This is a coordinated attack!’
“Who dares assault the Namgung Family!”
Whoosh!
The Patriarch’s protective energy blazed across his entire body like wildfire.
The surrounding stone and metal crumbled to dust, scattering as he turned his gaze toward me.
“Hand them over at once. I must drink my life water and sweep away the enemies. There’s no time.”
“Patriarch. These are people.”
And then.
I spoke the truth.
“People? People, you say. Heheht. How could those be people? They’re beasts who peddled useless medicine. So I shall consume their lives to sustain myself. Come now, hand over the beasts. Un! What are you doing? Will you not obey your father, the Patriarch?”
Only then did I grasp the truth.
‘He’s not entirely insane… perhaps 25% mad. Or maybe his moral compass is damaged. Either way, I’ll need to knock him out.’
From the moment he tried to kill someone to drink their blood, he was no longer sane.
I glanced at the distant smoke.
Someone was launching a large-scale assault on the Namgung Family. And that surely meant…
[Brother Jin. It seems someone who knows about Father’s condition has orchestrated this.]
All of this had to be planned.
[That appears to be the case. Then we can’t afford to waste time, can we?]
[What about the wounded?]
[Aside from the Vice Patriarch, there are no critical patients.]
[Then I’ll move first!]
Namgung Un initiated the first strike.
Boom!
Thunder roared with each step as his body surged forward like lightning.
The Sovereign Sword Form unfolded at its peak, the surrounding air pressing down upon Patriarch Namgung Cheol.
“You dare defy your father!”
Namgung Cheol roared in fury, extending both palms toward him.
Sword Seal of the Inspection!
The blade energy from Namgung Cheol’s sword poured forth, colliding head-on with Namgung Un’s blade.
Rumble!
Lightning and blade energy merged, erupting in a violent explosion.
As Namgung Un was pushed backward by the blast, Namgung Cheol seized a sword from one of the Namgung Family warriors scattered around using his technique of grasping emptiness.
“It seems this father must teach his eldest son a lesson!”
Whoosh!
Clang, clang clang!
Two Sovereign Sword Forms clashed in mid-air.
They began fighting to suppress each other’s domain.
The problem was that Namgung Cheol’s momentum was instantly overwhelming Namgung Un!
‘Tsk. Father’s power is this formidable…’
Gritting his teeth, Namgung Un steeled his resolve and drew his inner energy to its absolute limit.
He had to decide this in a single decisive clash!
If he let Namgung Cheol slip away here… catastrophe would unfold.
Will itself moves inner energy.
The thunder that had been writhing within him grew increasingly powerful, transforming into a storm cloud of pure lightning.
Rumble!
The moment lightning erupted across his entire body, radiating brilliance, his will flowed through his blade and completed itself in the supreme technique of Transcendent Shimmoo.
Boundless Sword of the Vast Sky.
Transcendent Shimmoo – Thunder Cloud Sword Heaven
A colossal thunder dragon emerged from his blade.
It effortlessly tore through the Sovereign Sword Form’s momentum and instantly pierced through the Gaju’s body.
Boom!
A massive explosion erupted, and the Gaju staggered back five steps.
Yet while he was wounded, it was not a grave injury.
His chest was split open and blood flowed, but his organs were not exposed nor his muscles severed.
In other words.
Only his skin had been torn slightly!
“Hmm!”
Namgung Un was shocked, but he gripped his sword again.
‘Thunder Cloud Sword Heaven is Transcendent Shimmoo. It tears through and penetrates even blade energy… how is this possible! Even protective blade energy should not have withstood it. It was a strike meant to sever at least the muscles…’
“Hahaha! It stings. Un, your achievements are remarkable. Your father in his prime was not this strong at your age. But this father will not yield!”
This time Namgung Cheol launched his attack.
Simultaneously, Namgung Un felt an invisible force squeezing him.
This was Namgung Cheol’s Sovereign Sword Form!
Its power seemed to be at least twice that of Namgung Un’s!
With that force, Namgung Cheol’s blade flew forward, forming blade energy.
It was a killing strike that disregarded his son’s life or death.
Namgung Cheol intended to kill him, even though he was his own flesh and blood.
However, there were not merely two people present.
“Patient, this will sting a bit~”
A gentle voice.
Along with that voice, the Icy Frost Blade suddenly emerged from behind Namgung Cheol’s back.
The blade, gleaming with cyan light, pierced his back with a soft thrust before he could even react.
“Jin, my brother! Unless it’s a technique of considerable power, it cannot harm Father in his current state! Even with such techniques, it would not be easy!”
Adamantine Indestructibility!
It transcended mere blade immunity.
Through demonic cultivation, Namgung Cheol’s body had become virtually equivalent to Adamantine Indestructibility.
There was no way a blade without even a trace of sword energy could cleave through it.
Even Namgung Un’s own True Sword Technique had only left shallow scratches.
“How in the world could such a blade possibly cut through a body of Adamantine Indestructibility!”
Yet Jin Cheon-hee merely spoke madness.
“It’s an emergency, so there’s no choice. I’m avoiding the vital points!”
Squelch!
And remarkably.
The blade gently burrowed into Namgung Cheol’s back.
“Aaagh!”
“How is this even possible…?!”
A searing pain! Because of it, Namgung Cheol’s sword momentum scattered, and the Imperial Sword Form’s momentum wavered.
The principle was simple.
The martial technique I had continuously studied since arriving at the Namgung Family.
Ultrasonic cutting.
A blade imbued with that principle pierced through Adamantine Indestructibility!
‘Ou, it’s working quite well indeed.’
Namgung Un asked in shock.
“How did you manage that?”
“Ah, with sound technique?”
“…?”
Namgung Un looked at Jin Cheon-hee as if he were spouting nonsense.
After all, he had simply stabbed with the blade.
It was a blade so lacking in sword force that one doubted whether it even carried proper sword energy.
‘Shimmoo perhaps? Indeed, Geomhwang even cleaved Mount Tai with a wooden sword. Then it makes sense that he so easily broke through Adamantine Indestructibility!’
A similar… Shimmoo Technique was born.
Unaware of Namgung Un’s misunderstanding, Jin Cheon-hee cried out.
“Namgung Hyeong! Now is the moment!”
At Jin Cheon-hee’s urging, Namgung Un finally came to his senses.
Namgung Un’s blade, imbued with thunder energy, swiftly struck down Namgung Cheol’s scattered sword.
Crackle!
One of the advantages of thunder energy: it pierces through the opponent’s protective force and causes electrocution!
In an instant, lightning energy coursed through Namgung Cheol’s body, and his entire musculature spiraled beyond his control.
But then.
“You wretch!”
WHOOOOSH!
Hundreds of blades materialized around Namgung Cheol’s form.
Not mere illusions—actual sword-qi blades, hundreds of them, manifested in tangible reality!
“Ah… have I surpassed my father!”
Namgung Cheol’s fury melted away, replaced by pure elation.
And Namgung Un, who had been observing his father’s display, widened his eyes and cried out.
“Be careful, Brother Jin! That is the ultimate secret technique of the Imperial Sword Form! Protective qi merging with formless energy to create the shape of sword-force!”
Even as he shouted this warning, Namgung Un himself drew upon the fullest extent of his power.
The ultimate secret of the Imperial Sword Form—soon, hundreds of sword-forces would dance into being.
Once that happened, there would be no stopping it.
I had to end this with a single decisive strike!
His body now blazed with lightning-radiance so brilliantly that his flesh became invisible.
He was the very embodiment of the Thunder God himself!
And in that state, he unleashed a secret technique beyond even Shimmoo’s ultimate arts.
Boundless Spear Heaven Swordless Sword.
Ten Thousand Thunders, One Blade.
All the lightning that had filled his entire being converged into his sword.
The blade itself seemed to become pure, blazing light.
This was no mere lightning.
This was the quintessence of thunder-energy itself!
A power that transcended sword-force.
Thunder-Lightning Absolute Transformation!
From that state, Namgung Un’s blade thrust forward in a straight line.
A flawless, singular piercing strike imbued with Thunder-Lightning Absolute Transformation advanced relentlessly.
Against it, hundreds of blades trembled as if alive, surging forward to meet the Thunder-Lightning Absolute Transformation.
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BANG! CRACK! CRACK CRACK BANG!
Countless explosions erupted.
Pure collisions between Thunder-Lightning Absolute Transformation and the sword-forces, detonating in succession!
The explosive force rippled outward to both Namgung Un and Namgung Cheol, battering their bodies.
Namgung Cheol endured through Adamantine Indestructibility, while Namgung Un pushed back the blast-force with the momentum of the Imperial Sword Form.
But.
If this continued, Namgung Un would be defeated!
Then came the moment.
“Cough!”
Namgung Cheol staggered, spewing black blood.
The formless sword-forces manifesting from his body scattered and fractured.
Now was my chance!
Namgung Un’s Brain Lightning Palm pierced through the sword aura.
Though the energy of the palm technique had weakened and dissipated from breaking through the sword auras of the protective technique, Namgung Un knew well that the remaining internal force alone possessed sufficient power.
Thus the sword advanced toward Namgung Cheol’s vital point and pierced straight through.
Crack!
The sound of metal crumpling echoed. The sensation of striking the vital point was unmistakable.
Patriarch Namgung Cheol staggered from the impact, then collapsed entirely.
When a vital point is sealed, the mind remains conscious but the body becomes paralyzed and falls—a natural consequence!
Thud!
“Hah….”
Sweat dripped down Namgung Un’s face.
“Why did Father stagger just now?”
Was it a side effect of the martial technique? Or….
“Ah. It was poison.”
That’s when Jin Cheon-hee’s voice reached him.
He was answering while approaching Namgung Cheol.
“Mercury poisoning?”
“Ahaha, no. I used an anesthetic poison~”
“What?”
Jin Cheon-hee approached and pressed Namgung Cheol’s consciousness point, causing him to lose consciousness as well.
Namgung Un sheathed his sword and approached.
The claim that he had just poisoned his own father—even for someone from the Sichuan Tang Family, it was something ordinarily unbelievable.
Even Namgung Un himself, who had been fighting alongside him, hadn’t detected any trace of poison technique whatsoever.
‘However, Jin is not the type to lie.’
Still, there was a question.
“What do you mean, Jin?”
Suddenly poisoned?
“The Namgung Family seems to be in chaos right now, so we can’t drag this out. When I stabbed his back earlier, I slipped some anesthetic into him. My left hand has the Black Flame Dragon… no, not the Black Poison Dragon either, but anyway I’ve learned some poison techniques.”
Whenever he used poison techniques, Dang-a’s face came to mind first.
Jin Cheon-hee thought that seeing his manner of speech being unconsciously influenced by it meant he must have had quite a lot of fun playing with Dang-a back then.
“Hehe…. Is there any martial art you don’t know, Jin?”
“I should learn everything I can. Thanks to that, we subdued him quickly without any deaths, so that’s fortunate. Now let me give our patient emergency treatment~”
His mouth was glib, but his hands sealing the vital points were merciless.
Thump, thump-thump-thump!
Somehow even watching it made Namgung Un involuntarily let out a groan of pain.

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